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...DENG XIAOPING The leader of 1 billion Chinese launched his Great Leap Outward--a staggeringly ambitious attempt to modernize China and make it a world power--in 1978, a move that made him POY. In 1985 TIME named him again, saying his reforms had "changed the daily lives of his nation's citizens to a greater extent than any other world leader." Indeed, wrote TIME, his blend of state ownership and private property, of central planning and competitive markets, of political dictatorship and limited economic and cultural freedom, holds "promise for changing the course of history...
...been, for the past year, the Administration's chief smallpox adviser. Henderson believes a smallpox outbreak in the U.S. would actually be "very controllable." The strategy he used in the 1960s and '70s was to vaccinate only infected patients and people in contact with those patients, moving outward in concentric circles until the virus stopped spreading. If it's any comfort to procrastinators, the smallpox vaccine will still protect you against the disease after you've been infected--as long as you get your shot within two or three days. That's assuming you can find one in the middle...
...left home?" the 26-year-old minister asks a swarm of giggling children, age 5 and older. As they ponder the answer, he takes a spaghetti strainer out of a sack stuffed with Bibles and turns it into a spiky helmet by filling its holes with nails facing outward. Then he places the metal headgear on a nervous volunteer. A child shouts out the correct answer--"Feeding pigs!"--and, as a reward, gets to aim water balloons at the newly anointed human porcupine...
...reading for a Harvard class (Leo Damrosch’s “Wit and Humor”). Over the year she has grown into being a patient but merciless editor, allergic to bullshit, her Vermont upbringing clearly supplying her with the ideal editor’s mix of outward bucolity covering a willingness to use firearms. And only recently have we discovered her fine public speaking skills. Rachel is great. I hope that the people she works with next year will make FM as meaningful for her as she has made...
...your report on the coolest inventions of the year [Nov. 18]: Many of the inventions employ digital electronics with no outward sign of a complicated computer. These inventions will help us build products that will improve the quality of life without too much technological complexity. BUCK KULKARNI White Plains...