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...help also by adopting what Indiana University Political Scientist Kevin Middlebrook describes as an "open and flexible" attitude toward Mexico. Economist Clark Reynolds of Stanford University warns that Washington should avoid closing the U.S. border to Mexican immigrants in such a way as to spark social conflict within Mexico. The U.S., most experts agree, must also reject any protectionist demands that would put additional pressure on Mexican exporters. Perhaps most counterproductive would be any attempt to seize upon Mexico's troubles as an opportunity to exercise more leverage and, for example, demand preferential oil prices. Says Carlos Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico We Are in an Emergency | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...panel's most distressing discovery was a stray steel chip, perhaps a burr from a screw, in an exhaust vent of the suit's oxygen supply system. If the fragment had been in the pure oxygen area and caused a spark (by hitting a wall, for example), it might have touched off a catastrophic flash fire, killing Lenoir and possibly ripping a fatal hole in Columbia's sides as well. In fact, a suit did catch fire in a test at Houston two years ago; fortunately no one was wearing it. It was so incinerated that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Some Unsuitable Workmanship | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

...Crimson, which rallied from a 2-0 deficit, failed to generate any offense early in the game, but used its passing attack to spark its comeback attempt...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Listless Iceman Salvage 2-2 Tie With Bruins...But Iceman Full short at Brown | 12/16/1982 | See Source »

...hard stoneware, porcelain, greenware; dishes of great poise and deceptive simplicity. Even humble spittoons were elegantly designed with a finely crackled finish. Tregear includes hundreds of pictures, plus a wealth of details-the design of the kilns and the chemistry of the clays. The missing ingredient is the Song spark of genius, which disappeared with the coming of the Mongols and has never been reignited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Luxurious Museums Without Walls | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...Spark...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Huskies Down Icewomen, 7-1, On Five Second-Period Goals | 12/10/1982 | See Source »

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