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More important, though, was Master Aloian's example during the last year of his life. Faced with a frightening and insurmountable disease, he continued to pour himself into his role as master and friend of Quincy House. As the year progressed, so did his failing health. Yet he continued to eat with the students in the house, keeping up with their lives, refusing to let his infirmity sway him from his goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Master and Friend | 12/15/1986 | See Source »

Minitel is not all digitized gossip. Farmers use it to track weather reports and commodity prices. Pharmacists order drugs, investors check stock portfolios, and real estate agents post listings. Collectors sell antique furniture, rare coins and secondhand fur coats. Jacques Toubon, leader of Premier Jacques Chirac's Rassemblement pour la Republique party, invited voters last August to pose questions to him via Minitel and drew thousands of responses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Punching Up Wine and Foie Gras | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...drug trade is controlled by perhaps a dozen Mexican "mafiosos," some of whom live south of the border. The mafiosos are assuming new muscle as Mexico's economy declines and illegal aliens pour into Texas. Drug gangs have enlisted wetbacks as couriers, paying them $150 or more to float sacks of pot across the Rio Grande. Many illegals stay on to become full-time drug runners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rio Grande's Drug Corridor | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...federal government must pour billions of dollars into grass roots reading programs in order to end adult illiteracy in the country, an award-winning author on the subject said last night at the Cambridge Forum...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Literacy Expert Calls for Federal Aid To Help Grass Roots Reading Groups | 11/6/1986 | See Source »

Still other critics of the pact think it could be detrimental to U.S. chipmakers in the long run by giving the Japanese a respite from cost cutting, during which they can pour their profits into research and development. In the meantime, other discounters, like the Koreans, are rushing into the U.S. market to fill the discount gap. "I'm meeting with a group from Seoul tomorrow. Their prices will be better," says Donald Kingsborough, chairman of a California toy company, Worlds of Wonder, that uses a high volume of chips in products like Teddy Ruxpin, the talking bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling the Crunch From Foreign Chips | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

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