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...return of roadsters and the introduction of newly designed models [BUSINESS, Dec. 2] are welcome to us aficionados, some of whom remember the '50s and '60s. But you should brush up on your automobilia. You said, "The carmakers will revert to the national racing colors for their flagship images: silver for Germany, white for Italy, red for Britain." You got only one of three national auto-racing colors right, Germany's, which is indeed silver. But Britain's is green, not red, and Italy's is red, not white. DONALD L. STURGEON Wilmington, Delaware

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, does not rule it out. Instead of engineering genes, he says, "we might be able to squirt some chemical to trigger telomerase at a particular site. The enzyme would turn on for a few weeks, change the expression of cells and revert them to a younger profile. We wouldn't have to treat the whole body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN WE STAY YOUNG? | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...beat in the Democratic primaries if he runs for President in 2000. The two men have a bitter rivalry dating at least as far back as the 1988 presidential primaries, when they assaulted each other with insults and negative ads. If Clinton wins, all Democratic politics will again revert to presidential politics: every move Gephardt makes will be judged in the White House for its impact on Gore, while Gephardt will have to worry constantly about being steamrollered by the White House on Gore's behalf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT'S NIGHTMARE | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...service since its inception. For years her deepest confidants knew her as an145396@anon.penet.fi That cloak of anonymity allowed her to communicate honestly with people for what she says was the first time in her life. Anon.penet.fi allowed lots of people to be heard. Doubtless, some of them will now revert to silence, waiting for the courts to figure out that the Net deserves protection of the right to speak freely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REQUIEM FOR A GO-BETWEEN | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...supply-side lite. His plan will rely more on the promise that a Republican Congress, working with a sympathetic President, could rein in spending enough to cut taxes way back as well. And that is where Clinton gets his opening: if elected, he will argue, the Republicans will revert to their true nature and make up the shortfalls by gutting Medicare and kicking welfare mothers and children into the street. Republicans are starting to make a similar argument about Clinton and what a second term would mean: he may be saying all the right things, but you'll never know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ROUGH POLITICS OF VIRTUE | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

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