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...readiness is visible all around. The day after Republicans unveiled their plans to scrap government programs that have become part of the American way of life, Fargoans barely blinked. If anyone had reason to panic, perhaps it was Marlene Brown, 30, a mother of an eight-year-old son. She receives $337 a month in AFDC payments and $200 a month in food stamps. Currently enrolled in a vocational school where she is learning word-processing and stress-management skills, Brown also has a Pell grant of $760 and a $1,700 federal loan to pay for her education. Sipping...
Seventeenth century Spain was notorious for the parsimony of its common diet: bread, beans, onions, a scrap of lamb or fish sometimes, and garlic, garlic, garlic. It was to French or Italian cooking what the crabby-looking servant girl grinding aioli in Diego Velazquez's Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary was to the sumptuous nudes of Titian or Veronese. A modern palate would recoil at the eggs slowly frying, or rather poaching, in oil on top of a clay stove in Velazquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. But what an amazing...
...motives and how he thinks. In particular, they have studied his choice of targets and bomb-making style, which has always been quirky and meticulous. The Unabomber's devices are generally handcrafted, with many parts, including tiny levers, carved from wood. fbi forensics experts have found everything from scrap wood to pieces of mahogany and other hardwoods used in furniture. One bomb contained a twig from a cherry tree. The bomber makes some of his own metal parts too, including pins and even screws. Then the whole thing is generally placed in a homemade wooden box before being mailed...
...unsolicited $55 per share proposal -- more than 40 percent above yesterday's closing stock price -- would be the biggest U.S. corporate takeover since the $25 billion buyout of RJR Nabisco by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 1988. Today's surprise announcement boosted Chrysler stock and prompted Chairman Robert Eaton to scrap a scheduled New York auto show speech.TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirtersays Chrysler is well positioned to fight a takeover because of its profitability, as well as Eaton's financial acumen. Nevertheless, McWhirter says the announcement sent shock waves through a U.S. industry that has never before been targeted...
...been in full swing for more than a decade now, but despite huge investments of research money and intellectual capital, medical science still has no effective weapon against the disease--and no definite idea of what such a weapon would even look like. Under these demoralizing conditions, any scrap of progress, no matter how tenuous, triggers an enormous surge of hope. It happened again last week with a report in the New England Journal of Medicine: doctors at UCLA announced that a five-year-old boy, infected with HIV at birth, has been symptom-free ever since. More important, over...