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...engaging sociability, but it is his combination of affability and acumen, of energetic fervor and astringent intellect, that makes him potentially one of the most influential of Justices. The Reagan Administration could hardly have invented a jurist whose views are more perfectly consistent with its own philosophy--or a sharper advocate of that philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warm Spirits, Cold Logic | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

Crack is cocaine intensified. Its effects are cocaine's--but amplified, sharper, meaner, uglier. The assault on the body, brain and nervous system occurs in swifter, more profound fashion. "Crack, even more than plain cocaine, puts users at extremely high risk," says Dr. Nicholas Masi of the cocaine addiction treatment center in Plantation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Price of Abuse | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...Meat Products in Mercedes, Texas, and is sold to ranchers from Florida and California. Zebu, which is now being tested for fat and calorie count at Texas A&M University, was the least acceptable of the beefs tasted. Both the meat and fat had an even sharper acidic flavor and aftertaste than the Chianina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: How Do You Say Beef? | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...fallout caused an international uproar against the Soviet Union for its lax safety measures and its concealment of the fact that the dangerous radiation was floating toward neighboring countries. Moreover, the accident seemed certain to put the worldwide use of nuclear power under still sharper attacks. In West Germany, the antinuclear Greens quickly staged protest rallies under banners bearing the slogan CHERNOBYL IS EVERYWHERE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Meltdown | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...instant-camera sales, which plunged from a record 9.4 million units in 1978 to 3.5 million last year as more and more shutterbugs turned to superior 35-mm cameras. The Cambridge, Mass.-based company says that with the advanced chemistry of Spectra film, the new camera will produce sharper pictures with truer color than did previous models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Pulling Out the F-Stops | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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