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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Letting the Truth Ring Out | 7/22/1988 | See Source »

...thought that the AIDS scare couldn't touch you, that you were removed from the horrors of the disease for which there is no cure, read Alice Hoffman's At Risk and think again. A modern day novel which takes place in a town on the Massachusetts North Shore, At Risk teaches that no one is safe from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and that all of us are exposed to more than the medical harms of the AIDS virus...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Letting the Truth Ring Out | 7/22/1988 | See Source »

...status as a potential gymnastic champion is more than a gimmick; it provides a standard by which her physical deterioration and emotional growth are measured. The little tumbler is a reminder that when A.E. Housman wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young," he did not mean this young. At Risk is a one-hankie book and could be a two-hankie movie. Not to worry. No , one ever got sick from crying. Tears, in fact, make good medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journals of The Plague Years | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

Ohio Senator John Glenn, the early favorite, has not held up well under scrutiny. With an uninspiring Senate record, $2.4 million in unpaid 1984 campaign debts and less charisma than Dukakis, his appeal to the risk-averse Dukakis may be simply that the bland ex-astronaut could not hurt him, and he could help him win Ohio. Indiana Congressman Lee Hamilton emerged as a foreign policy heavyweight and Mr. Integrity during the Iran-contra hearings. A lively presence Hamilton has never been, and he may not even be able to deliver his traditionally Republican home state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching For Mr. Right | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...showing lifeless children plucked from the Persian Gulf. But there is something disturbing when a great nation finds itself mute in the face of its own complicity in disaster. Corporations are not expected to show soul, yet immediately after the Bhopal disaster the chairman of Union Carbide took the risk of making a symbolic pilgrimage to India. Personal gestures of atonement are commonplace in other cultures: the president of Japan Air Lines resigned because 520 passengers perished in a 1985 plane crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Bad Things Are Caused by Good Nations | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

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