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...milk prices, customs duties and value-added taxes. Economic growth for Western Europe will average only about 2.5% this year, or just half the U.S. rate. Europeans who in the mid-'70s looked on the U.S. as a nation weakened by Viet Nam, Watergate and economic stagnation now marvel at the fact that Americans have created 13.2 million new jobs in the decade following the first oil shock in 1973, while Europe has lost 1.5 million. Adding to the malaise is Europe's realization that it is losing ground to Japan and other East Asian nations...
Even Reagan's worst enemies marvel at his dirt-doesn't-stick "Teflon" presidency. Voters forgive Reagan his verbal gaffes, and even his policy blunders. Many ordinary citizens feel they can say about Reagan, even though he lives in the White House, that "he is one of us." Walter Mondale, on the other hand, is one of them: the Washington bureaucrats, the lobbyists, the big spenders in Congress, who have-at least in the world according to Reagan-ensnarled the nation in red tape and drowned...
Measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria, polio. One by one in this century the scourges of youth have fallen before the marvel of vaccines. But there has been no similar victory against the last of childhood's common infectious diseases: chickenpox, or as it is known medically, varicella. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the virus-caused illness strikes about 3 million youngsters each year, approximately as many children as there are babies born...
...draped over the side of the bed, hanging just above floor level, and I kept having this nightmare of waking up with a mouse nibbling on my fingers. That's how I got the idea for Gremlins. "His imagination stoked by a young lifetime of reading Marvel Comic books, watching old Universal horror movies and collecting clay models of monsters, Columbus set to exorcising his tiny demons in a screenplay. By the end of that year, his script had found its way to the desk of Steven Spielberg...
...normally in the Winter Games, which for some reason (not the cold, surely) have managed to remain incident-free. The Olympic ideals have less to do with the familiar end-of-Games scenes of Mississippians hugging Muscovites than with the direct appreciation of sport. Not that one mutters, "I marvel at Olga Korbut; therefore I love all nations." Rather it is a matter of noting, usually in silence, the common human displays of excellence and struggle, both against oneself and against time. Down on the track a hurdler runs like mad to beat time. Up in the stands the aging...