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...something changed for Chun in the next 48 hours. About 3 p.m. on May 3, he walked out on a balcony near the university's main entrance, doused himself with paint thinner, ignited himself with a cigarette lighter, and then plunged 15 ft. to the pavement below. Alive, but with burns covering 95% of his body, Chun was rushed to a hospital. Seven hours later, he died...
...wide task force is encouraging our suppliers to develop lightweight, recycled coated paper for use in our magazines. The paper available so far is too heavy, and its use would increase our total consumption of paper. In fact, we and several other Time Inc. magazines recently switched to a lighter paper. Reports task-force chairman David Refkin, who is assistant director of paper purchasing: "In the case of TIME alone, this saves more than 2,500 tons every year...
...Times is not moving to appeal to blue-collar tabloid readers; they are of little interest anyway to the kind of upscale advertisers the paper attracts. Instead, it is straining to keep up with the evolving taste of younger readers, who have come of age expecting a lighter, more gossipy style of journalism. This year Frankel hired consulting editor Adam Moss, the former managing editor of Seven Days, a defunct New York weekly that was popular among the yuppie Manhattanites whom the Times must hold as readers. The hope is that Moss -- "He's not a news person," grumbles...
...think he was right to wait until age 55 to try the heroic role. The list of parts that tenor Alfredo Kraus, 63, will not touch reads almost like a chart of opera's greatest hits, including Cavaradossi in Tosca and Rodolfo in La Boheme. Kraus sticks strictly to lighter parts that do not strain his pure, lyric voice...
...decades after their successful revolutions, both communist giants built massive ground forces equipped with heavy tanks and artillery. Since the 1970s, their military leaders have also given lip service to the need for lighter, faster forces and high-tech weapons. Partly out of bureaucratic inertia and largely because their economies were not up to the task, neither country actually moved into the modern military age of microelectronics. "People talk as if the Soviets haven't done their best, and have to do better," says Stephen Meyer, a military expert at M.I.T. "The point is, their best wasn't good enough...