Word: postalization
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...roll now. Two years ago, he was awkward at community meetings, but he has learned a common touch. At the basketball-court forum, he patted shoulders and grabbed forearms--physical gestures once uncomfortable to him. And he's telling a more personal story. He is the adopted son of postal workers who raised eight children, he says over and over. He earned his way. He's asking voters to remake the city in his image. So far, they like what they...
David Kaczynski is a million dollars richer, but he probably doesn't feel like a rich man. The money is the reward for turning in the Unabomber -- his older brother Ted -- who spent 17 years victimizing total strangers through a series of seemingly random bombs sent through the U.S. postal system. David plans to give the government-funded reward to the victims? families. The attacks started in 1978 and ended with Ted's capture in 1996, but not before three people were killed and 29 injured. "There's no question the money could never compensate for the loss...
ANNOUNCING NOTEBOOK CONTEST #2, in which readers are asked to consider the new Alfred Hitchcock postage stamp, shown here, and then design a stamp, depicting some current figure or event, that the Postal Service might reasonably issue in the year 2050. Fax your entry to (212) 467-1010, e-mail it to Letters@time.com or mail it to TIME Notebook Contest #2, Room 2321B, Time & Life Building, New York...
...AFFILIATE GOES POSTAL OVER LETTERMAN...
...conflict where possible," says Kraft, an interlibrary-loans assistant in Minnesota. He organized petitions, got Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and some Senators to write to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. The committee rejected the idea. Then came the Celebrate the Century series, in which the U.S. Postal Service had people vote on which icons represented the '60s best. That's all the opening Kraft and the Enterprise Stamp Committee needed. The battle is won. What will Kraft do now? "If I found another project I could feel passionate about," says Kraft, "I might beam aboard again...