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...case against Lee "built on thin air," but that the Taiwan-born scientist also had been scapegoated because of his race. Vrooman won?t get into the nitty-gritty of the case ? top secret, and all that ? but he didn?t mind saying that Lee?s ethnicity was "a major factor." Vrooman claimed to have counted 13 white scientists at Los Alamos who made the same visits to China as Lee and talked to the same Chinese scientists. None were part of the investigation. But TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon reminds that none of them had left the door open...
...help from her children's father, who kicks in support "whenever he can." Health care is tough--"I have a pile of bills this high," she says--but she found a hospital emergency room that treats her kids even when she can't pay. Wells succeeded in bucking a major national trend. She didn't join the millions of Americans who have left the welfare rolls in recent years for gainful employment...
Amid the mountains of baseball cards and cookie jars up for grabs on eBay's Net bazaar, one offer stood out this spring: "Team of 16 employees from major ISP willing to leave as a group," the posting read. "Total minimum bid would be $3,140,000." To even the most avid online collector, this seemed far-fetched--not to mention medieval--as if a package deal of techies could be bartered like a set of Limoges china or Star Wars lunch boxes. Surely it had to be a hoax...
...distance of your house? Trouble is, despite the growth of telecommuting, most jobs are still in cities and suburbs. That's why the late-'80s experiment of building cute little instant towns in places like Seaside, Fla., never really caught on: many of the communities were too far from major job centers. So now developers are chasing a new fashion. Rather than offer an escape from the suburbs, they're struggling to reinvent them by building cute little instant towns near major cities...
...longtime publisher of a major magazine, I was amazed at TIME's accomplishment in putting out the issue on the J.F.K. Jr. tragedy. Few readers can comprehend the complexity of virtually full-issue editorial coverage within such a short time frame. Congratulations! BILL LANE Menlo Park, Calif...