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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know how the world will actually be different in the post-nature era, if at all. Such observations may seem equivocal, but they lend force to McKibben's arguments. No one knows what will happen, McKibben says; nothing is definite. When a world beyond humanity's reach no longer exists, there will be no security...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Predicting an End to the 'Sweet and Wild Garden' | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...persistent optimism is always engaged in a losing struggle with slowly metastasizing despair. Since Jack and Frank Baker (Jeff and Beau Bridges) are approaching middle age and still playing duo cocktail piano in Seattle's lesser lounges, an air of hopelessness has begun to hang heavy. Stardom is no longer an option; survival, even on the bottom rung, is becoming a question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Finally, A True Character Comedy | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Such is the pace of political change in Hungary these days that last year's political blasphemy is this week's new truth. In keeping with the wholesale undoing of the past, the ruling party, formerly known as the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, is no longer officially Communist. At a five-day congress that ended in Budapest last week, 1,274 delegates voted overwhelmingly to take the Communism out of socialism and become the Hungarian Socialist Party. They also sent hard-line General Secretary Karoly Grosz into political oblivion and repudiated much of four decades of Communist rule, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary: Now You See It? | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...evidence, some point to Yale, where the housing system is completely random and the residential colleges allegedly no longer play an important role in student life. Instead, the housing situation at Yale has led to tightly-knit rooming groups and a lack of esprit de corps within each residential college as a whole, Heimert says...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Battle Lines Drawn In Ideological War | 10/21/1989 | See Source »

Basically, the interview consists of twosegments. In the first phase, the employer willprobably try to determine your interest in thejob, your qualifications, and whether yourinterests and those of the company are compatible.In the second phase, she will usually give you anopportunity to ask questions. Necessarily, thefirst phase is the longer...

Author: By John Noble, | Title: INTERVIEW MOTTO: BE PREPARED | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

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