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...typical personal ad. Expand it to 10, maybe 20 pages. Replace the desire to impress with a commitment to candor. Picture the ad being written by someone who aspires to be a professional writer. In such a transformation every characteristic, every interest that would be presented in the shorter ad, will be explained, analyzed, connected to other traits, to past experiences, to future aspirations. Put together twenty of these revamped personals ads, and the result is Personals, the book...
...Korea, whose missiles are notoriously inaccurate, and Iran may need an additional two years before it can deploy a rocket reliable enough for military operations. In a region full of perils, Shahab-3 is only one more potential menace. U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf can be hit by shorter-range Iranian Scud missiles. And Israel, which reacted calmly to the Iranian launch, already lies within range of Syrian, Egyptian, Saudi and Iraqi missiles...
...sleek Startac phone has long been the envy of every mobile exec saddled with a larger, less attractive cell phone. Early next year, Motorola will give folks something new to covet: its V-series phone (approximately $500 to $600) will be a tad shorter, 25% narrower and a third lighter than the Startac. The best news: the V-series' talk time reaches a comfortable 160 min., with up to 160 hr. of standby...
Tamoxifen, used to treat breast cancer, made headlines in April when a study suggested it could also prevent the disease. But this week, two European studies showed no proof of prevention, casting doubt on earlier hopes. The studies differed in duration (the U.S. study was shorter) and in participants (one European study included low-risk women...
...game really slowed? In 1975, the Elias Sports Bureau says, the average length of the American League game was 2 hr. 25 min. Last year it ran 2 hr. 57 min. (National League games run about 10 min. shorter, probably because the American League's designated-hitter rule has removed the pitcher from the batting order; pitchers usually make for quick outs.) That half an hour is a huge increase, yet it fails to measure the agony of those games in which the earth's rotation seems to stop, in which the stillness is broken only by the faint sounds...