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...name at the top of the party roster reads Jiang Zemin, but power in China still rests in the hands of a few octogenarians. So it made sense for them to choose as party General Secretary a man known as "the weather vane." Jiang is the consummate apparatchik, whose rise to nominal power rests almost wholly on his ability to read China's swirling political winds correctly. The 63-year-old former mayor of Shanghai perfectly mirrors the party line of the moment -- slower economic reform coupled with rigid political orthodoxy -- as he made clear last week in his maiden...
...agreement, it is that state-sponsored gambling has been the driving force behind the huge increases in all types of wagering, legal and illegal. Legislators who approve lotteries, legal horse-betting parlors or riverboat gambling are spreading the message that wagering is respectable. "Gambling has been part of every known society," says Dr. Eric Plaut, vice chairman of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Medical School, Evanston, Ill. "What has changed in the past decade is that it is now publicly endorsed. Since the government has got into the business of being an operator of gambling...
Even as the FDA was easing its rules, AIDS sufferers were still searching for a cure on the black market for unapproved drugs. It was revealed last week that an underground network of doctors in four cities has been conducting a clandestine trial of a drug known as Compound Q. In test tubes, it can destroy cells infected with the AIDS virus, but it has not yet been proved to be safe and effective in humans. In the unofficial trial, 42 patients have received Compound Q, which is derived from a Chinese cucumber-like plant. Among those taking the drug...
TIME's first overseas editions, produced for U.S. forces during World War II, were known as pony editions, for their compact size and reduced news content. During World War II, we also started publishing a Canadian edition that included a special section of news about our northern neighbor. That edition was expanded in 1962, with the opening of an editorial office in Montreal, and began publishing occasional Canadian cover stories...
...also has final say over every single appointment of a tenured professor or an administrator in the University. That's power, folks, and Bok has been known to exercise it, sometimes nixing tenure candidates that departments desperately wanted...