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TIME Photographer Neil Leifer spent 17 days in China and came back with many of the pictures that appear in the main cover story. Special Projects Art Director Tom Bentkowski, who, along with Deputy Art Director Irene Ramp, designed the cover package, commissioned the traditional Chinese characters that represent the one-word titles accompanying the pictures...
...nuclear-powered vessel launched last month at the Nikolayev Shipyard on the Black Sea is a notable Soviet innovation: the country's first conventional aircraft carrier. The ship sports both an angled flight deck for fixed-wing aircraft, as on all U.S. carriers, and a ski-jump ramp, similar to those on British carriers, for launching short-takeoff aircraft. Existing Soviet carrier-type vessels, like the 37,000-ton Minsk, are equipped only for short-takeoff planes and for helicopters. Revealing the Soviet launching last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said that the carrier eventually will enable the Soviets...
WHAT'S THE MOST DANGEROUS THING YOU'VE EVER DONE? I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps. When I was standing on top of the building, so many questions came into my head that I'd ordinarily never think about: What if my wheel falls off? What if the seam of the ramp comes up? What if it's wet in one spot? It really messed with my confidence...
...train from the Belgian university town of Louvain-la-Neuve near Brussels to his parents' home in Leuze-en-Hainaut, near the French border. The 23-year-old theology student, who has cerebral palsy, telephones the station a day ahead and arrives early to ensure staff set up a ramp so he can board the train in his wheelchair. But rail employees aren't there to work the ramp after 9 p.m. or at weekends. "If I travel, I can't return in the evening," Pion says. Less than half of Belgium's 245 rail stations are fully accessible...
...addicted to my e-mail, but it’s nothing short of exasperating when my little off-ramp on the information superhighway gets clogged with e-flotsam and e-jetsam...