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...recall the excitement on campus. Professor of Government Samuel H. Beer, for example, remembers only his relief over the blockade plan plan, "considering that at first people had talked of bombing the hell out of Cuba....Things came across so fast that there really wasn't time to react...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Cuba 20 Years Later | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

Many Lebanese react nonchalantly to the Israeli presence. They fondly recite the long list of foreign armies that have conquered and occupied Lebanon over the past 3,000 years. The history lesson is usually given with a wry smile and a knowing look, as if to say that armies have come and gone but Lebanon has always prospered. The newest occupiers are judged in comparison with their predecessors, a distinct advantage. The Syrians, who have been in Lebanon since 1976 as the main component of an Arab Deterrent Force, are generally disliked because of their heavyhandedness. Similarly, many Lebanese will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visitors or Conquerors? | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...Lisa Yeager, 23, is a secretary at an Atlanta bank and a cheerleader for the Atlanta Hawks basketball team. "A well-toned body shows me that a woman cares enough about herself to improve herself. I exercise because it makes me feel good, not because of how men react to it." Says Gail Eisen, 40, a producer at CBS News in New York and co-author of The Pilates Method of Physical and Mental Conditioning: "Just being thin isn't pretty any more. Now beauty is the vibrancy of someone who's got blood rushing through her body from exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Ideal Of Beauty | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

...office and turn on the TV, switch the dial to Turner's Cable News Network and start watching." He finds CNN soothing: "When you're in the middle of some ordeal analyzing breaking news, and you feel your perspective slipping away, and then you watch someone else react to the same news, it snaps you up and reassures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 9, 1982 | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...accuracy by Reporter-Researcher Nancy Pierce Williamson. As Wallis concludes, "Herpes is insidious, but it doesn't have to be a tragedy." The potential tragedy would be a continuing and pervasive public ignorance of what herpes is and how its estimated 20 million sufferers in the U.S. should react...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 2, 1982 | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

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