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The rational solution would be to combine both operations into a single system. There's one problem with that: it's illegal. The Cable Act, for example, forbids telephone companies to own more than 5% of a cable-TV programmer in their territory. The cable companies, meanwhile, are not allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building The On Ramp to the Electronic Highway | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

The doctor was firm and combative. "There's no rational argument against this," said Dr. Kevorkian as he sat down with TIME's Midwest bureau chief Jon Hull. At the time, the Michigan legislature was rushing to make assisted suicide a crime punishable by four years in jail. But Kevorkian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevorkian Speaks His Mind | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

A. I get many such calls and requests. But critics would say that the person is not mentally competent to make a rational decision, which is not always true, you know. I'll give you the reason we can't do it now. It hasn't been researched. Once this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kevorkian Speaks His Mind | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

This brilliant, desperate, sheet-soaking nightmare of a novel begins in what seems to be the clear air of rational narration, as Thomas Jefferson, living in Paris at the outset of the French Revolution, beds his mulatto slave girl Sally Hemmings. Whether the historical Jefferson actually did so is unprovable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberty's Dark Dream | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

Maki's masterwork, a municipal gymnasium complex in Fujisawa, Japan, finished in 1984, is a marvel of engineering and fabrication. Inside the main, 2,000-seat gym, a vaulting span of 262 ft. 6 in. seems to levitate the roof just off the walls, creating an intense ribbon of natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Sublime To the Meticulous | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

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