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So we wait, not minding the cold, apprehensively euphoric at the prospect of impending, but undefined confrontation. The forest has a silver lining: a brilliant full moon illuminates the treetops and jagged piles of gravel from the construction site.

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: The Occupation That Got Away | 10/10/1979 | See Source »

The facts are simple enough. Three hundred more refugees arrived today. Sixty per cent of the camp's population is ethnic Chinese, 40 per cent Vietnamese. There are five schools teaching the children their ABC's. Most of the camp is middle-class. There are some family squabbles but no...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waiting for a Home | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

But money, as anyone who has tackled the piles of federal forms and waded through the swamp that is the Washington bureaucracy will tell you, does not come easy. To get it, you've got fill out forms. To keep it, you've got to fill out more forms. And...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Breaking Down the Buddy System | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

Proposed in 1969 by Pathologist Kilmer McCully, then of Harvard, this thesis also implicates diet, but the villain is protein. Methionine, an amino acid, is broken down by the body into homocysteine, a chemical that promotes atherosclerosis (or the buildup of plaque in the arteries) in lab animals. According to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diet Debate | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Though the U.S. has some oil-saturated tar sands, they are not large or accessible enough to justify expensive exploitation by the Government. But some 76 billion bbl. in oil, about three times the nation's proven reserves of conventional crude, are known to be recoverable from the shale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lighting Up Synfuel's Future | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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