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Newly declassified Pentagon records reveal that themilitary ordered troop maneuvers during nuclear bomb tests in the 1950'sin order to convince soldiers that radiation was not a serious threat. Concerned that American troops were inordinately afraid of nuclear radiation after reading and viewing disturbing news accounts of the radiation damage in Hiroshima, the Pentagon ordered the maneuvers to give troops "an emotional vaccination." As a result, many troops sustained serious radiation-related illness. While such a decision seems bizarre and unethical by today's standards,TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompsonsays it must be weighed in the context of the time...
...eating disorders, and their marriage has been strained. But it was false: Spencer made the whole thing up to see whether his friend was leaking stories to the News of the World. Sure enough, the next day's front page carried the story, and Spencer came forward to reveal the hoax. Editor Piers Morgan said the paper's 13 million readers would be "baffled" and "insulted" by his actions...
...diehard fans on the Harvard campus--evidence that on this campus, we live sheltered from the realities of life, of what is really going on. As the eternal optimist, the Harvard student has become enraptured in long hours of broadcast hearings, eagerly searching for an obscure clue that will reveal Simpson's "true innocence." But there is a lesson to be learned by the Harvard population here: Even great ones fall, my peers. Let's face the facts: O.J. Simpson killed his wife, and hopefully he will be punished for it. Release this useless cause...
Presidential candidates are often unable to recall -- or reluctant to reveal -- deep, dark secrets; their aides are forced to hire special gumshoes to unearth them instead. In fact, as the 1996 presidential race gets under way, investigating the boss before an opponent does it for you has become as integral a part of fledgling campaigns as fund raising and free media are. "It's essential," said Jack Pitney, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College. "You really need to see where the other side is going to come at you." Done right, counter-oppo (short for counter-opposition research...
Novelists reveal themselves as performers, or shamans, or unloved children, or observers of bugs through microscopes. The Australian writer Thomas Keneally is a builder, a gifted, painstaking maker of books. After 20 novels, including Schindler's List and A Victim of the Aurora, a reader imagines him rummaging through his barn for old beams and bricks stored years before and never used. Stories, perhaps, told by his grandparents, who were storekeepers in Australia's Macleay River Valley. He sorts the tales, considers which can still bear weight, begins to sketch a plan for A River Town (Doubleday; 324 pages...