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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Third World spokesmen may simply be trying to deflect the criticism they deserve, but they have a point: the U.S.'s actions tend to undermine its words. The U.S. is the biggest culprit in the buildup of gases that threaten to disrupt the global climate. Princeton University's Center for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greening of Geopolitics | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

In a series of experiments begun in the mid-'70s at the University of California at San Francisco, Bishop and Varmus resolved a spirited debate over oncogenes -- the genes, or units of heredity, that cause cancer. Researchers had previously theorized that cancer genes were separate entities, unrelated to the healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nobel Prizes: Surprise, Triumph - and Controversy | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Range after rocky range, the mountains of northern Nevada soar above the arid flats. From the air their sagebrush cloaks seem as soft as crumpled velvet. Suddenly a series of gigantic holes looms below, so huge that if they were the size of anthills, the ore trucks and bulldozers scurrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Carlin Trend, Nevada There's Holes in Them Thar Hills | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

In many cases, the gold mines are located in remote, desolate regions. But some impinge on popular campsites, and one, ominous as a shark with wide-open jaws, is poised right on the edge of the tiny town of Tuscarora (permanent pop. 12). Julie Parks, wife of the local potter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Carlin Trend, Nevada There's Holes in Them Thar Hills | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Is there any sense in a national policy that has Government officials gloating over the death of an 18-month-old girl while denying any intention to harm one of the kings of international terrorism? That has the U.S. impoverishing a whole country (Panama) through the blunt instrument of economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: We Shoot People, Don't We? | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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