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...ready to dismiss the likelihood of another assault. Around the country, airports and other public facilities stepped up security. The blast was a reminder of the vulnerability of most American office buildings, shopping malls, airports and railway stations. Even the U.S. government has let its guard down since the mid-1980s, when American installations were on constant alert and concrete barriers were set up around many government buildings n Washington...
Prepared in the mid-1980s and suppressed by the authorities, the documents reveal that cannibalism was widely practiced in the late '60s in the Guangxi Autonomous Region in southern China. Acting without the sanction of national party authorities, the documents reveal, several party leaders in Guangxi incited followers to kill "class enemies" and then eat their flesh in public ceremonies. Zheng also conducted his own extensive investigation into the reports of cannibalism. He says he interviewed relatives of victims and spoke with dozens of people who confessed to having eaten human flesh. He insists that his case is persuasive...
Experts began predicting the violent collapse of Third World megacities more than a decade ago. Urban planner Janice Perlman recalls the skepticism she encountered in the mid-1980s when she first proposed Mega-Cities, a project to promote the exchange of ideas and innovations among the world's biggest urban areas. She was told that her proposal was futile because such cities as Jakarta and Mexico City would be torn apart by disease and disorder within a few years...
Stempel's ouster is a landmark in the growing shift of power from U.S. managers to corporate directors, who had traditionally been viewed more as rubber-stampers than real decision makers. As recently as the mid-1980s, not even the bellicose presence of Ross Perot on GM's board could persuade the firm to shift gears or change direction. "I did everything I could to get General Motors to face its problems," Perot said in the presidential debates. "They just wouldn't do it." Rather than heed Perot's exhortations to cut executive perquisites and streamline the bureaucracy, GM spent...
...events saved the field. The first, in 1976, was the discovery of hybridoma technology. This allowed scientists to build exquisitely precise probes to explore cell surfaces and search for CAMs. The second boost came in the mid-1980s, when M.I.T.'s Hynes noticed a resemblance between research coming from obscure labs working on cancer, immunology, developmental biology and hematology. Hynes began to see that these researchers were all exploring aspects of cell adhesion. In 1987 he drew together these separate lines of research and published a landmark paper in the journal Cell that finally connected the dots...