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...These people...threatened by the differences of their neighbors, react by lashing out," Dinkins added. "We must begin to understand that if our brothers and sisters thrive, then we, too, will thrive...

Author: By Michael E. Balagur, | Title: Dinkins Proposes Urban Agenda | 10/5/1991 | See Source »

...When confronted by a challenge, Americans have demonstrated that they can react and compete. The strong U.S. space industry is the result of the shock of Sputnik. Maybe what America needs is to feel threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How A Superpower Can Avoid Muscle Loss: JACQUES ATTALI | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

Harvard rounded out its scoring with a nice looking corner play, a little give and give and go from Ceci Clark to Kristen Fowler to Amy Belisle. Belisle fired a bullet past the goaltender, who had little time to react...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, | Title: Stickwomen Clip Crusaders | 9/25/1991 | See Source »

Analysts now predict that it may take a series of bilateral deals to resolve the hostage crisis over the next several months. Some of the kidnapping clans inside Lebanon, fearful of Syria's strengthened presence, may react with greater intransigence, wielding the hostages as protection against Syrian reprisals. Because of their high profile, Terry Waite and Terry Anderson, the best-known hostages, may be the last to walk free. But at least, notes Sir Anthony Parsons, a British Arabist and a former ambassador to Iran, "everybody is facing in the same direction." And that is surely the most promising sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A Game of Chances | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

Ethicists worry sometimes about the psychological damage done to both donors and recipients. How will children react in later life to being conjured up and used in this way? Consider the case of Michelle Kline, a contestant in the 1989 Miss America contest, who received a kidney from her brother 19 months before the pageant. She would not speak to him afterward, although they later reconciled. "The sense of having part of her brother inside her created tremendous tensions," says Renee Fox, a medical-sociology professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The tyranny of the gift: "It was a feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When One Body Can Save Another | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

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