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...Watergate, four of them written in consecutive weeks in May 1973. This summer Magnuson, 66, will retire after 32 years at the magazine. Looking back over his distinguished career here, Ed recalls handling our coverage of the My Lai massacre, the Pentagon papers, the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island and "a lot of plane crashes. I guess you could say I was a bad-news guy." For us and our readers, though, it has always been good news when he and Church handled the bad news...
...easier time purchasing a semiautomatic AK-47 assault rifle -- totally legal, no waiting period -- than certain nicotine patches. The catch? Unlike guns, not only are patches highly regulated, but get this, the two leading brands are being tightly rationed in many areas. For nicotine devotees, walking a mere mile for a Camel seems simple in comparison...
...elixir is exercise. "It is euphoric; it releases me," he claims. "I run two miles three times a week at about 9 1/2 minutes a mile. I play tennis, golf and horseshoes. Keeps you human, keeps you going. Take fishing. It is not competitive, but it is totally relaxing. I concentrate on where the cast is going. I can get my mind free of other things...
...boarding school, he used to get up at 5 a.m.every day and run a mile and a half. He kept thatregimen up for a while at Harvard until heswitched to cycling. "At first I cycled to getaround Boston, then to see Boston, and finallyjust because I enjoyed riding," he says. His finalsemester at Harvard he joined the Harvard cyclingteam to see what racing is like...
...anymore. Last week Armenian fighters cut a six-mile corridor through Azerbaijan to link Karabakh to the Armenian republic, then launched an artillery assault on the Azeri territory of Nakhichevan, which borders Iran and Turkey. Washington, Moscow and Tehran all strongly condemned the surprisingly forceful Armenian military moves. And in Ankara the main opposition party called on the Turkish government to send troops to Nakhichevan to defend the Azeris, who are ethnic Turks...