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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...episode's greatest impact may be a loss oftrust among scholars who use the network, whichlinks research centers and universities thatexchange non-classified information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Report Reviews Morris Computer Virus | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...almost as nostalgic an image as a battle piece by Paolo Uccello. But others have not dated. In particular, the spiking and whorling of translucent mechanical forms in Balla's Abstract Speed, 1913, can be seen as one of the great pictorial images of our century, as fresh in impact as the day it was painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Raw Talk, but Cooked Painting | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

Critics complain that the EPA has no way to measure the combined impact of ingesting many different pesticides. "I may have Alar on my apples, lead arsenate on my grapefruit, captan on my vegetables," says Jay Feldman, national coordinator of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides. "Alone, each of them may constitute a negligible risk. But when you add them up, the total toxic burden is too high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down on The Farm | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...enough, which could account for his strenuous efforts to keep them from public consumption. But no band that makes music as spooky and splendid as Orange Crush and Hairshirt (two of Green's outstanding cuts) could ever be considered boring, not even potentially. The band's considerable heft and impact reside where they properly belong: in the group's driven, likably demented music, with its passages of unexpected lyricism and its lyrics full of muted menace, in which a sidelong threat can turn, with a twist, into a punch line. The best R.E.M. songs have a kind of intellectual aftershock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dreaming At The Wheel | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...West needs to give definition and vigor to a basically sensible approach. It must identify what trends it should encourage, where involvement can have the greatest impact and where initiative would be largely wasted. Poland's Foreign Minister Tadeusz Olechowski, for one, has made it plain to Secretary of State James Baker that he welcomes help: "The United States should not be absent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Eastern Europe: Chips Off the Old Bloc | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

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