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...again, will they?" Then a pregnant friend coldly told her to stop visiting until after the baby was born. In one Manhattan office, co-workers of a woman who had herpes refused to use the same phone and got up a petition to ban her from the office, lest she somehow harm an employee undergoing chemotherapy. Some law firms have been making discreet inquiries of doctors, wondering whether it is legal to fire a worker for having herpes. Almost anywhere, at any time, some prattler is bound to say, "Herpes is a very trendy disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Scarlet Letter | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...companions, to cast his fishing nets there. She cannot stop them or prevent news of the find from reaching all the other fishermen in her village. But she bumps into an improbable ally: a giant manta ray that seems as interested in preserving the seamount as she is. Lest credulity be overstrained, a dust-jacket photograph shows Author Benchley riding on the back of a manta ray. If he can do it, so, presumably, can Paloma. Such authentication is really unnecessary. The Girl of the Sea of Cortez is an underwater morality play with a happy ending. Fabulous events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

...worst economic slump since the 1930s, one marked by heavy unemployment almost everywhere and in most countries (though no longer in the U.S.) by rapid inflation as well. All parties agree that in the interdependent world economy, the major trading nations should keep their economic policies from clashing lest they delay recovery or even make the downturn worse. But preliminary discussions among the diplomatic aides who prepared the way for the summitteers turned up sharp variances as to how economic strategies should be coordinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summitry with Style | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

After Argentina invaded the Falklands last April, Kirkpatrick cautioned that the U.S. should remain neutral lest Washington force Buenos Aires into the orbit of the Soviet Union. When the Administration eventually accepted Haig's argument and took Britain's side, Kirkpatrick spoke against providing London with military intelligence and equipment. Alexander Haig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Kirkpatrick Woes | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...there is something comfortable, even old-shoeish, about the new film, a sense, appropriate to its theme of coming to terms with middle age, that all aboard are pleasurably rediscovering their best selves. William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley and the rest of the gang on the bridge and, lest we forget, Scotty (James Doohan) down there in the engine room-have all matured gracefully. They now have the air of people who have done something in which they can take a decent pride. One leaves the film neither hugely thrilled nor greatly awed, but with a pleasant sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beaming Up | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

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