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...view of how mountains were built and seabeds stretched and rifted, and how continents oozed out of place and out of shape, was itself shifting, upthrusting, subducting. Plate tectonics, the giddy new geology, said that continents floated on some 20 crustal plates, 60 miles thick, kept in motion by ... yeah, well, we'll figure that out later. But in the 1960s and '70s more geologists than not had signed on to the theory. Most agreed, for instance, that India had rammed into Tibet at high speed (and is still ramming), heaving up former ocean floor to create the Himalayas...
...falls to another turnaround pro, Jerry Levin, 54, to pick up the pieces, and few expect fast answers. "The business is in lousy shape," says Andrew Shore, an analyst at Paine Webber. Shore, a Dunlap critic who recently baited Chainsaw Al by publicly asking him to work for $1 a year until the stock recovered, pegs any turnaround at two years...
...more pernicious predator than anyone imagined. Dozens of spikes of protein stick out of its side, swathed in sugar so our antibodies won't be able to tell it apart from the other proteins in our blood. Not only that, HIV is also able to change shape. Dr. Joseph Sodroski, one of the researchers, branded it "a viral Houdini...
...sufficient to save Japan: "The few billion that the U.S. spends on propping up the yen are spit on a hot stove," says Van Voorst. "They're important mostly as a psychological reassurance to Tokyo. It's up to the Japanese to get themselves back in shape." Japan has been sluggish in responding to G7 pleas for urgent action, but Treasury official Larry Summers flies to Tokyo later today to press the case. Because as Monday's 200-point drop in the Dow on news of Japan's recession confirmed, Washington and Tokyo are in this together...
...better or worse, sex-filled television helps shape young opinion. In Chicago, Ryan, an 11-year-old girl, intently watches a scene from one of her favorite TV dramas, Dawson's Creek. She listens as the character Jen, who lost her virginity at 12 while drunk, confesses to her new love, Dawson, "Sex doesn't equal happiness. I can't apologize for my past." Ryan is quick to defend Jen. "I think she was young, but if I were Dawson, I would believe she had changed. She acts totally different now." But Ryan is shocked by an episode...