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...amount he says he has been trying to borrow from his family in Detroit to ensure his burial in potter's field, and to escape from the death beyond death: "They send you to medical school and cut you up into little pieces -- that's not for me. No sir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gloves for The Needy: One Heart Warms Many Chilly Fingers | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...that no nuclear reactor, either water-cooled or gas-cooled, is totally safe as long as it produces radioactive waste. The U.S. alone has generated thousands of metric tons of "hot" debris, including enough spent fuel to cover a football field to a height of three feet. Said Sir Crispin Tickell, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations: "The fact that every year there is waste being produced that will take the next three ice ages and beyond to become harmless is something that has deeply impressed the imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Nuclear Power Plots a Comeback | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

...number of these narratives have been reassembled for the first time this century, and they are a delight to see. The show is meant as a 75th birthday tribute to the redoubtable Sir John Pope-Hennessy, formerly chairman of the department of European painting at the Met and one of the great scholars of the Italian Renaissance. No doubt the Pope, as Hennessy is known, will be happy: when he was 23, he wrote his own book on the Sienese painter Giovanni di Paolo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Escape to Renaissance Siena 15th century painting is a delight | 12/26/1988 | See Source »

...businessman replied, "Sir, the most useful international language in world trade...is the language of your client...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Harvard, Parlez-vous Francais? Espanol? | 12/13/1988 | See Source »

...SEASONS (TNT, Dec. 7, 8 p.m. EST). Charlton ("Moses") Heston tackles another larger-than-life hero, Sir Thomas More, in a new production of Robert Bolt's drama on Ted Turner's cable channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critic's Choice: Dec. 12, 1988 | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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