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Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Calvin, who has long specialized in reporting for TIME on behavior, amassed a collection of complaints by patients about pain and its treatment. "About the time the pile got to be a foot high," she recalls, "I came across an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine called 'The Quality of Mercy,' which showed growing medical concern about this problem." At that point she suggested that TIME do a major story on pain...
...Here is where they killed one man," said Ansari afterward, pointing to a pile of ashes, a charred shirt, a sandal and a puddle of blood. "They stabbed him in the stomach with a sword and poured kerosene on him and set him on fire while he was still alive." The violence quickly spread to Bhiwandi's slum areas, where Hindus and Muslims live uncomfortably side by side: an estimated 15,000 huts were put to the torch. Soon the rioting spilled over to other industrial towns in the region and to Bombay itself...
...Manufacturers Hanover's mountainous pile of Latin American loans that made it a target for rumors. The $6.5 billion that it has extended to the region's four biggest borrowers represents 10% of the bank's total assets. If a wave of defaults by Latin American borrowers were to take place, Manufacturers Hanover would be in a very difficult situation...
...minstrels of medieval Europe, the moon was a kind of celestial junkyard. They consigned to lunar banishment a dolorous assortment of such earthly intangibles as broken vows, fruitless tears and misspent time. Today the moon is a repository of more substantial material: it harbors a pile of gear, left behind by Apollo astronauts, that includes one moon buggy, $5 million worth of camera equipment and two golf balls that Alan Shepard whacked with a makeshift six iron to unplayable lies in a boulder-strewed valley. Still, this lunar refuse is paltry by comparison with all of the man-made debris...
...whom the theater is named, keep bursting in with Gershwin themes. MacLaine manages to find a wistful, slightly torchy quality in one unlikely number, If I Only Had a Brain from The Wizard of Oz. For the rest of the evening, however, she pounds out lyrics clearly, but at pile-driver pace, denying herself the time to think out loud about what they mean...