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...solve that red-hot controversy, a whole cluster of weighty issues are constantly juggled and judged. The definition of life, separation of church and state, private versus public rights, and moral and legal battles are all considered. The complexity and multiplicity of issues under discussion only adds to the difficulty of reaching consensus anything akin to a "solution...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, | Title: Abortion: What Is Moderate? | 2/22/1997 | See Source »

...calmly uncorked a 53-yard bomb to Terry Glenn that produced a touchdown on the very next play. The Patriots never looked back, leading 21-0 with five minutes left in the first half and getting 166 rushing yards and three touchdowns from Curtis Martin. The Patriots will host red-hot Jacksonville next Sunday. Whatever the results, this year's Super Bowl in New Orleans is sure to be. . . different. The Packers, though marked for success this season, haven't played for the title since the infancy of the league. The Patriots haven't been this far since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Meat for the Super Bowl | 1/6/1997 | See Source »

Green Tree represents the rapier edge of a red-hot specialty: the business of making loans to people with damaged credit at interest rates that start at high and extend to very high and nosebleed. Depending on where you sit--whether you are the lender or the borrower--this is either an industry filling an underserved market, or legal usury. Often known as sub-prime finance, the sector is taking off in part because of sophisticated software that allows even onetime deadbeats to get loans approved in minutes over the phone or as they sit in the offices of mortgage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUB-PRIME TIME | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...black college, a white college and a college for the deaf. And who would want to snub the Children's or the Holocaust museum? The carriers will cross the narrow bridges over the Potomac not once but three times in two days. On Thursday the group moves through the red-hot center of the city at 4:09 p.m., the start of rush hour, to inflict maximum harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WASHINGTON DIARY: MAKING THE RIGHT ENEMIES | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...intersection of cyberspace and Wall Street has produced an unlikely offshoot: the message board as quasi fan club. Some of today's highest-flying stocks are being cheered along by a chorus of believers singing their praises online. U.S. Robotics, a red-hot computer-modem producer, has been touted by hundreds of postings with headings like, "Buy USRX any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CHORUS OF TRUE BELIEVERS | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

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