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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have two kinds of correspondents here at TIME: those stationed in bureaus across the globe, and you, our readers, who are often illuminated, amused or just plain alarmed enough by a TIME story to write us. A case in point: our issue naming the endangered earth Planet of the Year. As of last week, the story has drawn 1,687 letters, the largest outpouring of mail for a Man of the Year issue since TIME selected the Ayatullah Khomeini...
...having a garden, and are spending money for comfortable dwellings," says sociologist Yukio Akatsuka. "The interest is now shifting from the living room to the bathroom." Though the seatless holes in the ground of stereotypical Western dread still exist in many parts of Japan, the newfangled WC is often a marvel of gadgetry...
...TOTO is testing one that analyzes urine and reports blood pressure and heartbeat. For the harried commuter who has everything, the Minato Pharmaceutical Co. is marketing the portable Toilet Pot. It consists of a plastic bag that contains a coagulant and is aimed at victims of Tokyo's often intractable traffic jams. For travelers, a two-story suite of rest rooms called the Charm Station opened last spring in Udatsu-cho on Shikoku Island. It boasts six toilets with international motifs, including the Rose of Versailles, which features a white porcelain bowl decorated with pink roses and exuding the flower...
...throughout Latin America, Stroessner kept the army's loyalty by cutting it in on contraband, kickbacks and theft. A state of siege, regularly renewed and lifted only two years ago, empowered police to arrest thousands of opponents. Early in Stroessner's regime, critics were routinely branded as Communist subversives, often tortured and killed; in later years, foes were jailed or exiled...
Jeff Weber, 35, an ex-furniture salesman, ex-convenience store clerk, ex- satellite dish salesman, has spent his life chasing his dream: "An oddball business that will make me money, so I won't ever have to work for anyone," he says. The pursuit of that dream has often put Weber in conflict with his wife Mary, a barber at an old-fashioned men's barbershop...