Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event, was written by Associate Editor John S. DeMott and reported largely by New York-based Correspondent Bruce van Voorst. A nine-year veteran of TIME who specializes in business and economics stories, DeMott was particularly pleased with the assignment because it permitted him to deal with a lifelong passion. "I've been fascinated by communications ever since I was a kid with two tin cans and a taut string between them," he says. "When I was ten, I got my own $10.95 telecommunications network: two battery-powered toy telephones that a friend and I rigged between our houses...
...need to muse about war games last week. The real thing, with its blood and terror, was ripping up yet another patch of Lebanon. As the powers squared off and the battle lines blurred, the entire country sometimes seemed fated to disappear in the flames of Middle East passion. French Author Albert Camus once observed that one is always too generous with the blood of others. Lately, the world has been too generous with the blood of the people in Lebanon. -By James Kelly. Reported by Johanna McGeary/Washington and William Stewart/Tripoli
Pamela Leroy's passion for travel turned what was supposed to be a four-week summer archaeological dig in Australia for the summer into a 15-month, 50,000 mile odyssey...
Such exposures eventually cooled the public passion for made-to-order miracles. But, as the author acutely notes, it will not do to dismiss the Victorian period as a simpler time, when the naive were easily swayed by con men and shadowy ladies. Today every paperback emporium offers tiers of books claiming intimate acquaintance with the text of the future and the leaders of the past. Thanatologist Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross tells followers she speaks with the dead. A new edition of the prophecies of Nostradamus, "receded by computer" to give the requisite scientific gloss, has recently sold more than...
...damages on the charge of fraud. Last week, however, U.S. District Judge Joseph Stevens overturned the panel's findings and ordered a new trial on the fraud charge. Citing the "pervasive and relent less publicity" surrounding the case, Stevens said, "This verdict is the result of passion, prejudice, confusion or mistake on the part of the jury...