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...doomsday plans took shape during the Eisenhower Administration, spawning an entire bureaucracy and a web of government relocation sites situated around the capital in what became known as the Federal Arc. Each year the government conducted elaborate exercises in which thousands of officials relocated in ( mock nuclear attacks. Eisenhower and his Cabinet convened at Raven Rock, the 265,000-sq.-ft. "Underground Pentagon" near Gettysburg, Pa., code-named "Site R," or at Mount Weather, a bunker near Berryville, Va., code-named "High Point" (see "Doomsday Hideaway," TIME, Dec. 9, 1991). Airborne command posts and reinforced communications ships stood...
Most of the country's means to confront organized mobsters remain ineffectual. Strikes, speeches and taking phones away from prisoners mock the dedication of Falcone, Borsellino and their colleagues. A sweeping crime law modeled on the RICO acts would be a useful start. But until the state applies the same determination and courage that enabled it to stamp out the political terrorism of the 1970s, the battle against the Mafia will be one-sided, and the odds against the good guys will grow longer...
...already known) or an evolved form of an existing one. It could be a completely different sort of virus. It could even be some sort of bacterium, or perhaps an environmental factor. Scientists believe they have already isolated a new virus in patients with this mock AIDS, but their work needs to be confirmed. Such a virus could contaminate blood supplies undetected, but because scientists could develop new blood tests quickly, the danger is minimal...
Puig, a brilliant eclectic, produced some of the signature buildings of Barcelona. One is the Casa Amatller, next to Gaudi's Casa Batllo, a fecund parody of a Dutch burgher's housefront, with mock-medieval sculptures by the gifted Eusebi Arnau -- including animals blowing glass and taking photos, these having been the owner's hobbies. Another is Puig's exquisitely decorated house for the Baron Quadras, now a museum of musical instruments; a third, the Venetian-Gothic Casa Marti, housed the center of Barcelona's artistic bohemia, the Four Cats cafe, where established artists like Ramon Casas hobnobbed with younger...
Much of this is a reflection not on the athletes themselves, but on those of us who would demand perfection of them. We ask them to be exemplars in every aspect of their lives, and they mock our reverence daily. In that sense, the people who worship athletes can be a little like the devil, leading their redeemer up to a high place and then showing him all the pleasures of the world. "All this," we say, "I will give to you, if only you will show yourself better -- as well as no better -- than the rest...