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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some kids have learned the lesson of American free thinking and independence all too well, and that may eventually spell trouble for Amekaji. "I like the casual look," admits Hikok Asano, 19, but he quickly adds, "I really don't want to wear too much Amekaji. Everybody who wears Amekaji looks the same." In short, the ultimate way to look American may be not to look American...
...touts the ability of its new Prevention Serum (price: $50 for 1.35 oz.) to counteract "environmental impurities." Estee Lauder's Skin Defender lotion ($45 for 0.9 oz.) promises to shield against the "onslaught of irritants from pollution." The treatments typically contain sunscreen plus ingredients designed to neutralize so-called free radicals, the highly reactive molecules found in some air pollutants...
Even so, health experts are skeptical. Says Arthur Balin, a dermatologist at New York City's Rockefeller University: "While these neutralizers are effective, there is no evidence that free radicals on the skin's surface even cause damage...
...ends by different means. The demilitarization and economic liberalization of Eastern Europe, even up to and including a reunified Germany, might well result in the kind of safe, neutralized continent Moscow has long sought. The U.S. role would wither, and the Soviet Union, the largest land power, would be free to dominate. Josef Joffe, foreign editor of the Munich newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, argues that decay of the East bloc is not harmful to the Soviet Union as long as it does not proceed more quickly than the loosening of the transatlantic tie in the West. "If Gorbachev can pull this...
...than trying to rein in Stalin and his rampaging Red Army, Roosevelt and Churchill made what they considered minor concessions. They did not insist that Soviet military forces be withdrawn from Eastern Europe. Instead they settled for a vague commitment by the three powers to promote democratic governments and free elections in each of the liberated but Soviet- occupied nations...