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The runners are frequently besieged by people seeking autographs or taking pictures, eager to touch the torch or even its bearer. Roberta Ciccarelli, 38, a schoolteacher in Blairsville, Ga., raised $2,150 by knocking on doors in her town of 530, and her husband put up the rest. When she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kindling the Country's Heart | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

Fire fighters battling brushfires in Southern California's Los Padres National Forest have long had to cope with an occupational hazard beyond that of smoke and flames: poison oak, the Western cousin of poison ivy. Not only do they risk coming into contact with the vine, but they also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Turning a Leaf | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

In the end we are left with a now familiar classical dilemma of our age--our government finds itself making devices which nobody wants, everyone fears, and are never intended for use. But we are also left with a type of weapon which, sadly, cannot really escape the cruel dictates...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Misplaced Horror | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

thought she saw her soul shining through the features of her face. She forgot the nose was merely the nozzle of a bone that took oxygen to the lungs, she saw it as the true expression of her nature.

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: The Brilliant Irony of Levity | 4/13/1984 | See Source »

Increasingly, the lives of young near-victims of drowning in frigid water are being saved by techniques perfected over the past decade. Jimmy's is almost a textbook example: fire-department paramedics at the scene of the accident immediately started cardiopulmonary resuscitation, fluids and drugs were given intravenously, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Staying Alive | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

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