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...minds to one story. We'll accept that credit, but we're equally proud of another tradition: when an individual writer or correspondent has something special to impart, we make space on our pages for that writer's words alone. This is true of weekly stories, and also of regular columns. Since 1973 Hugh Sidey has written a column for TIME on the presidency as seen from his own special perspective. For twelve years Tom Griffith has dispensed his seasoned views on the press in his Newswatch column...
...another columnist of formidable stature debuts in the World section under the title America Abroad. The author is Washington bureau chief Strobe Talbott, who has unraveled the complexities of foreign policy in a wide variety of TIME stories since 1971. Twice a month America Abroad will offer readers a regular opportunity to read one of Washington's most perceptive observers of foreign affairs. Says World editor James Kelly: "Talbott has the rare ability to explore complicated issues in a manner that is lucid and provocative...
...CIGAR. Fidel Castro gave up his trademark Havanas in 1985, but only now has the reason been disclosed: according to Soviet officials, doctors discovered a small malignancy in a lung. Castro, 62, is under regular treatment that has slowed but not checked the course of the cancer. His public appearances have become less frequent, and he seems to have lost weight. Soviet leader Mikhail ! Gorbachev, who canceled a trip to Cuba last month after Armenia's earthquake, wants to reschedule as soon as possible, perhaps as early as this month. High on Gorbachev's Havana agenda: a discussion of possible...
...students, the gains can be rich. Some of Sadler's initial findings reveal that STAR students do about 30% better than ordinary students in absorbing concepts and learn about twice as much math as their regular counterparts. "I used to look up at the night sky and say, 'Yeah, so what?' " recalls Aphrodite Kapetanakos, a Watertown junior. "Now I show my friends a constellation and say, 'Check it out!' All they know is the Big Dipper...
Brinker no longer makes regular deliveries herself. Too many people have died, and it is agony to make new friends and lose them so inevitably. Still, if a client calls late to say he did not get his meal, Brinker will go into the kitchen, cook it and deliver it. When money runs short she uses her own. Sometime this year Open Hand will move to a new kitchen capable of producing 8,000 meals a day. "The money is really, really tight," confides chef Chris Medina. "In the past couple of months, we've been on the verge...