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Little of the sprawling army complex of Bab al Azaziyeh, in the heart of the Libyan capital of Tripoli, is visible over the high stone-and-concrete wall that encircles it. Red-bereted guards are on duty at the gates, remote-control TV cameras scan the street outside, and the occasional gun of a Soviet tank protrudes through slits in the wall. But Libyans know that their leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, uses the barracks as a residence, though for security reasons he often sleeps elsewhere. Thus when gunfire was heard in the vicinity of Bab al Azaziyeh, many Libyans thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Trouble in Tripoli | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

Roberto Trevino, the technical secretary of Mexico's National Nuclear Safety and Safeguards Commission, stresses that "there is no danger now." Nonetheless, two technicians are still searching for radioactive material on the Chihuahua-Ciudad Juárez highway, and the U.S. Department of Energy has conducted an airborne scan of the contaminated areas. The accident is a symptom of a larger problem, insists Antonio Ponce, a representative of Mexico's Nuclear Workers Union. He charges that the nuclear commission has been lax in cracking down on firms that handle radioactive material carelessly. Responds Trevino: "Their accusations are unfounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Aftermath of a Nuclear Spill | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...hardest things to comprehend about software, at least for consumers, is the price. While the cost of making a floppy disc and the packaging runs only about $4 to $7, the software sells for much more. A data management program like dBase II costs $700, while Micro/ Scan II, a stock-analysis program, can be as much as $12,500. Even a popular educational product like Bank Street Writer has an undis-counted price of $69.95, and a program to teach a preschooler the alphabet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wizard Inside The Machine | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...provocative thesis and a debatable one. But with secularization still marching on, almost unimpeded, Protestants and Catholics have much to reflect upon as they scan the five centuries and Luther and the shared future of their still divided churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Luther: Giant of His Time and Ours | 10/31/1983 | See Source »

...study of nuclear magnetic resonance, a method of measuring the frequencies of signals emitted by atomic nuclei under the influence of radio waves in an electromagnetic field; of a heart attack; in Zurich. NMR has revolutionized medical science as a diagnostic method without the ionizing radiation of CAT-scan X rays or painful injections of contrast material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 26, 1983 | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

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