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...persuade other members to save the planet from a nuclear holocaust. India can initiate the disarmament process by destroying some of its nuclear arsenal in the presence of other members of the club. This could galvanize world public opinion for total elimination of atomic weapons. SUDHANGSHU B. KARMAKAR Piscataway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 15, 1998 | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...delicate fulcrum of an erection. As with the debate in psychiatry between traditional talk therapists and their more pharmacologically minded colleagues, controversy over Viagra and its cousins may well provoke a rift among sex researchers. Raymond Rosen, a professor of psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, N.J., makes the obvious but necessary point that Viagra will not be the final word on sexual dysfunction or dissatisfaction: "There's a danger that we could lose sight of the fact that a lot of sexual problems relate to poor relationships or poor self-esteem or anxiety, depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Viagra Craze | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...whole conception of a presidentially mandated national conversation is nonsense, indeed pernicious nonsense. It is nonsense, first, to think that America suffers from a dearth of conversation about race. We are obsessed with race. We can't stop talking about race. Prop. 209, O.J., Piscataway, the gerrymandering cases, race and the death penalty, race and the law schools, race and the Oscars, race and baseball (black attendance is down): Is there an issue under the American sun that has not been given a racial cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE IN AMERICA: NOT ENOUGH CONVERSATION? | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...another example of this President's belief in the therapeutic effects of talk, of his conviction that the major role of government is not to do but to discuss. It embodied perfectly the vacuousness of the race policy of an Administration that has U-turned twice on the landmark Piscataway case--first joining, then opposing, then supporting again the suit of a white teacher fired to make room for a black colleague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE IN AMERICA: NOT ENOUGH CONVERSATION? | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...deficiencies is that if all other things are equal, the minority candidate should be chosen. This eminently defensible case, in which race is a mere tiebreaker and not a be-all-and-end-all that wakes conservatives in a cold sweat, is the Taxman case. Seniority being equal, the Piscataway School Board chose the woman who lent diversity in addition to business savvy...

Author: By David F. Browne, | Title: Problems in Piscataway | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

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