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Steen also said he was unable to reveal specific security changes, but confirmed that new measures were being taken...
AWARDED. To WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA, 73, masterly Polish poet of the prosaic; the Nobel Prize for Literature; in Stockholm. The Academy described her as the "Mozart of poetry." Her flowing verses and everyday imagery reveal the grace and depth of simplicity...
Prop. 209 has engendered a small industry of polling on affirmative action. What the polls reveal is that the phrase is reasonably popular, but the word preferences is extremely unpopular. In real life, alas, there is no affirmative-action plan that doesn't involve preferences--that is, taking minority race or female gender into account as a plus factor. That's why affirmative action is another one of those issues on which it's more difficult than is immediately apparent to give the public what it wants. The debate around it really leads into a much larger and more profound...
...were returned. The newly opened documents make public what President Eisenhower learned shortly after hostilities ended: up to 1,000 U.S. servicemen remained in communist hands. "The prisoners were sold down the river," Corso says. "We abandoned them." Documents turned up by Pentagon investigators and released by the subcommittee reveal an Administration in anguish. A memo dated Dec. 22, 1953, reports a conversation between Eisenhower and Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens concerning more than 900 U.S. prisoners who should have been returned but were unaccounted for. Stevens said he had the names of "610 Army people that have just...
...None of the rats made a full recovery, admitted Dr. Nurit Kalderon who conducted the research, because that would have required therapy, not practical with rats. Extensive work and more research is needed before the study can be applied to humans. "The results are interesting because of what they reveal about how the spinal cord behaves in injury," says TIME's Christine Gorman. "But it may not provide a lot of information about how to treat the injuries. First of all, the research was done on rats, which means it might not transfer directly to humans. Secondly, the rats' spinal...