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...superpower leaders sat across from each other last week at the bargaining table in an elegant salon in Geneva, Ronald Reagan implored Mikhail Gorbachev to join him in his dream of "rendering nuclear weapons obsolete" with a space-based missile defense system. Coldly fixing Reagan in his gaze, Gorbachev would have none of it. "It's not convincing. It's emotional. It's a dream. Who can control it? Who can monitor it? It opens up an arms race in space...
...Murjani, the maker of Gloria Vanderbilt jeans, which now offers 125 items of sportswear emblazoned with the cola's trademark. Sales of the clothes have been so effervescent that the beveragemaker opened a Manhattan store called Fizzazz to sell only Coca-Cola clothes. Shoppers sip free cola as they gaze at clothing displays projected onto a 25-ft. wall of viewing screens...
...more than read books during their New Year's holiday stay last week at Sunnylands, the secluded retreat of Multimillionaire Walter Annenberg in Rancho Mirage outside Palm Springs. But if they had peered through the dense row of tamarisk trees that shield the 200-acre estate from the gaze of outsiders, they might have discovered that Mel Haber's ideal of a sleepy Palm Springs area is fading fast. Progress is intruding upon the escapist desert haven of the wealthy...
...such solutions, we as citizens and individuals have too long hidden behind the excuse that their implementation would not be economically feasible. If we used just a fraction of the $100 billion that our government spent on the Star Wars weapons programs, imagine what we could achieve. Casting our gaze across the Atlantic, we can see that it is eminently possible to implement plans for the future without jeopardizing the present. Germany, for instance, has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent before our 20th reunion, and Britain has promised to reduce gas emissions by 60 percent...
...Double Happiness follows the workings of this assembly line. In the first section the women are presented in small, uncomfortable groups, preparing themselves for the potential humiliation of the selection process. Some appear surprisingly old?more, startlingly young?and almost all avoid the camera's gaze. Once the men have made their picks, the future couples and current strangers pass through immigration and brief counseling. As they absorb lectures on culture shock and communication, no one says a word to each other?no one even looks at each other?but Chang makes their body language easy to read. He captures...