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...Election Day approaches, a number of contests around the nation are proving especially significant. To assess the chances of Senate, House and gubernatorial candidates and help shed light on local and state issues, TIME this week begins regular coverage of some key races of the campaign...
This is where Anderson and his balloons come in. Knowledge of the stratosphere, the home of the ozone, is at this point primitive, and the experiments he is doing should shed light on how much ozone is still there and how it is affected by various chemicals...
Located on the southern edge of the Sahara, it is one of the poorest countries in Africa, with a per capita income of $210 a year. Its 6.7 million people have been suffering from recurring drought that has caused widespread hardship and political instability. This month Upper Volta shed the name that the French bequeathed along with independence 24 years ago. President Thomas Sankara, 34, who seized power last year, decreed that his country would hence forth be known as Burkina Faso...
...change is but the latest of a series that has kept cartographers busy as independent African nations shed their colonial past. The new name was derived from two of the country's main languages. In More, spoken by some 3 million people, burkina means "ancestral home" faso means "those who are dignified" in Dioula. Sankara also redesigned the flag and commissioned a national anthem that can be performed with traditional instruments. "Our new name represents a psychological and spiritual change,"explains Minister of Environment and Tourism Basile Guisso. "It will help revolutionize the way people think and help them...
Even after they shed their spouses and legalized their union, Liz and Dick were denounced by the pious. Everywhere they went the paparazzi trailed behind; following their soap-opera romance became almost a necessary diversion for a world wearied by wars and assassinations. The pair made millions and spent millions, traveling with an entourage that would pauper a Saudi prince, taking over entire floors of famous hotels. Like Henry VIII, a part he played with gusto in Anne of the Thousand Days, Burton lavished jewels on his consort: the 33-carat Krupp diamond, the 69-carat Cartier diamond...