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Kohl's answer is NATO. His Camp David host, George Bush, agrees. They both < believe in the old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." NATO has kept the peace for 40 years, and there's no reason to believe it can't do so for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Defusing the German Bomb | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

Harvard Management is not broken," Meyer says,defending Cabot from recent press criticisms."It's not my responsibility to fix...

Author: By Gregory B. Kasowski, | Title: Rethinking Harvard's Investment Strategy | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...otherwise normal men and women do such things? Why do they let their sexual desires destroy their families, their jobs, even their health? Is it possible that they are powerless to control their urges? Are they addicted to sex, just as a junkie is dependent on his next fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Do People Get Hooked on Sex? | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

Psychologists are in a hot debate over whether men and women who engage in compulsive sexual practices are addicts, just like junkies dependent on the next fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: June 4, 1990 | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...course they have, but it is so hard to know. The reason you study history is that it is easy to get a fix on the social embeddedness of ideas that are no longer current. The only thing you can know with respect to your own view is that you can engage in a lot of vigilance and scrutiny so that you can try to identify your own biases. You hope that a consciousness of social embeddedness makes you more sensitive. So, yes, of course, the interpretations of the Burgess Shale are in part conditioned by what's happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEPHEN JAY GOULD: Evolution, Extinction And the Movies | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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