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My companions with bird-like appetites laughed and ignored my pleas, satisfied that an appropriate restaurant would cross our path at mealtime.

Author: By June Shih, | Title: All I Ever Wanted Was A Shepherd's Pie | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

While catastrophic cave-ins are relatively rare in the U.S., about 260,000 former miners suffer from another killer: black lung disease. One reason could be that mine operators routinely circumvent air-safety standards established in 1969 to regulate the amount of coal dust in the mines. Now the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worker Safety: Black Marks For the Mines | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

In fact, Pat Buchanan's mindless "America first" crusade had paralyzed Bush for months. Foreign policy, the President's passion and claim to fame, was stowed throughout the early primaries as Bush told Republican voters that his new first priority was repairing the domestic economy. Aiding Russia and the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Two Visions, 21 Minutes Apart | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

MacDonogh convincingly argues that the Kreisau plot against Hitler could have succeeded if the Allies had lent more support to the resistance. Instead, when approached through secret channels, both the English and American governments ignored Trott's pleas for help.

Author: By Liam T. A. ford, | Title: Style Defeats Substantive Portrait of German World War II Resistance Leader, Scholar: | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

Republican Party elders say it is nonetheless time for Buchanan to do the ! right thing. They will bombard the TV commentator with calls to get out of the race this week no matter how he fares in the Michigan primary. But Buchanan is likely to ignore pleas for party loyalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Pat Buchanan Still Running? He's Gearing Up for '96. | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

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