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...total ruin and so on. They're intellectually unprepared for the kind of major changes that are objectively necessary. That's one reason I have recently stressed the role in perestroika of science and education. They can help us change the mentality of society and free ourselves from the grip of outdated, sometimes fundamentally erroneous concepts of economics, politics, culture, morality and philosophy. I'm thinking, for example, about old egalitarian principles that reduce everyone to the same level and old approaches to public wealth that excessively stress the distribution of goods at the expense of other considerations...
...have not yet ended. As one East bloc regime after another was shaken by political change last fall, only one Communist government in Europe managed to withstand the political earthquake unscathed. Now, nearly six months later, the leadership of tiny Albania is finally loosening its ultra-orthodox Stalinist grip. Last week the legislature in Tirana voted a series of political and legal reforms that may mark the beginning of the end of decades of repression and isolation...
...life in sports. If you had to create a situation to test the body, here's a guy who was great. He has taken care of himself. He has been sort of hibernating, time warped. We'll see what happens. But they don't really have a firm grip if a male body matures between 28 and 32. Now they say maybe it's 35. I might prove they really don't know what the hell they're talking about, and it may not even be until you're 50. I think we're going to redefine what 40-year...
Authoritarian regimes in Africa begin to give way to multiparty systems. -- Albania eases its Stalinist grip. -- A Soviet Communist Party official reflects on nationalism's silver lining...
...brake cables with sealed, flexible tubes that contain hydraulic fluid. When the rider lightly squeezes the handles, a plunger pushes a silicone fluid through the tubes, causing the traditional caliper arms to close. "I designed these mostly for women and children," says Mathauser, 68. "Girls don't have the grip these macho guys have...