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This is terrifying news for the 300,000 or so souls who live in the Maldives, but it could also spell disaster for people living on or near the sea everywhere--in Venice, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, New York City, the Nile delta in Egypt, the Ganges delta in Bangladesh or the Mississippi delta on the U.S. Gulf Coast. In all, perhaps 3 billion people, half the world's population, live within a hundred miles of the sea. And at least 100 million of them occupy low-lying deltas that, like the Maldives, rise not much more than...
...despair! U.S.A. stands for United Spirit Association, and the title has nothing at all to do with liquor or religion. No indeed. The group is so called because it upholds, above all else, unity and spirit, the two mantras that it will spell out this summer to 30,000 initiates, ages 5 to 18, in 82 cheerleading camps from Montana to Hawaii. And here in the largest encampment of all, just north of Santa Barbara, Calif., within dreaming distance of an enchanted forest and a blue lagoon, 1,030 girls--and seven equal-opportunity boys--have assembled in teams...
...guidelines are contained in a 182-page style manual and an 83-page list of proper names plus phrases or words that TIME may spell in ways that differ from standard dictionaries (racquet, kidnaped). The manual and word list are constantly evolving. Foreign words, for example, are italicized (contras, Ostpolitik) until they have entered the language (détente and nouvelle cuisine...
...would be in the living room, and my aunt Ada and my brothers and sisters. We would be eating popcorn. As it got later, I remember lying on the floor so my mother wouldn't see me. Uncle Lew would stop for a while, and then someone else would spell him, my dad or my aunt Ruth. And then Uncle Lew would come back. The period he talked about so well was about ten years on either side of the turn of the century. A beautiful time, I still think so. And I just wanted him to tell more...
...working. The repercussions of this crusade may mean increased vigilance on the part of music-swapping students—gone are the days of worry-free Kazaa—but it doesn’t mean that the RIAA’s aggressive legal actions spell success for their drive to preserve the music industry’s ingenuity. It could be that these lawsuits, which the association is firing off with such impunity, will boomerang, crippling the industry that it’s allegedly trying so hard to save...