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...vegetables to be treated with chemicals banned in the U.S. and derides U.S. News & World Report for promoting the views of a nuclear-industry coalition. Redesigned to enhance its appeal to general readers, the 28-page journal, which sells for $1.95, still resembles a house organ more than a slick consumer magazine. It is packed with reporting on the politics of nuclear testing, firsthand accounts of Greenpeace nautical confrontations with the Soviets and surprisingly attractive graphics. But it suffers from an overreliance on unnamed and Greenpeace-connect ed sources for its allegations and opinions...
...telephone call at 6 a.m. one Sunday with the news that a black male assistant superintendent has murdered a white female director of program evaluation and committed suicide. The police are at your house by 7 a.m., and the media are about to spread like an oil slick all over this one. What...
...Russian proverb, it should be: When skating on thin ice, move quickly. Like Gail Sheehy, who has learned some fast footwork and slick maneuvers during her career as a New Journalist and pop psychologist. Her biography of the Soviet leader marks Sheehy's debut as a pop political scientist...
While Dixon said she expected the people of Washington to be wary of her changes, she said that voters perceived the sincereity behind her position, which was meant "not to be politically slick, but...to serve," she said...
...figures for the country, often cite the numbers for the two parts of Korea combined. In the 1,100-seat auditorium of the Children's Palace, a 500-room extravaganza rich with 2 1/2- ton chandeliers and 50,000 tons of marble, groups of tiny revolutionaries put on a slick hour-long variety show, compulsively smiling while they deliver folk songs like Korea...