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Such obsessive parents often have a family history of either heart disease or obesity. Noelle's father, for example, struggled to lose weight through his teens. "In many cases," says Pugliese, "the diets parents choose are proper for adults--the kind suggested by the American Heart Association--but they are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Too Young to Diet | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

President Reagan may soon decide to replace Challenger with a fourth shuttle orbiter. A new bird will cost nearly $3 billion and take three years to build. The controversial decision would be a resounding victory for NASA and a presidential gamble that the shaken agency can recover from its ills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Fixing Nasa | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

Challenger had blasted off even though the temperature at the cape was 38 degrees . During the night, a subfreezing cold had chilled the shuttle, and surface winds of 30 m.p.h.. had aggravated the problem. Chunks of ice floated in water tanks laced with antifreeze. Once aloft on its tragic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Fixing Nasa | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

The government of Taiwan was acutely embarrassed earlier this month when a pilot from the island's privately owned commercial airline diverted his Boeing 747 cargo jet to Canton and announced that he was defecting to mainland China. To recover the plane, Taiwan's government reluctantly authorized representatives of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Flying the Friendly Skies | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

The doctors' toughest job was screening out those victims who might recover without the risky operation as well as those too ill to benefit. Of the patients selected for transplants, some had received such a heavy dose of radiation that their white blood cells, which are needed to match tissues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grim Lessons At Hospital No. 6 | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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