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...under the gaze of Anastasio Cardinal Ballestrero of Turin and a video camera, Italian microanalyst Giovanni Riggi cut a 1/2-in. by 3-in. strip of linen from the shroud, well away from its central image and any charred or patched areas. He divided the strip into three postage stamp-size samples and distributed them to representatives of laboratories in Zurich, Oxford and the University of Arizona in Tucson. Each then performed at least three radiocarbon measurements on its sample...
...Fine words, but the President had little to offer in the way of action. None of the solutions being proposed in Congress -- raising taxes, raising the retirement age or allowing retirees to gamble a portion of their payroll -- received his stamp of approval. Which means, according to White House correspondent Karen Tumulty, that we won't see a Clinton Social Security plan this year -- if at all. "He may have learned some of the lessons of health care," says Tumulty. "You do things slowly." Hopefully for Clinton, the system will be successfully tweaked by August 19, 2011 -- his 65th birthday...
...just licked the stamp and dropped your 1997 tax return in the mailbox--with return receipt requested. But this is no time to nap. The taxman has given you plenty to think about in '98. Now is the time to tune up your strategy or get ground up next April in the wheels of change...
...detest its contemporary namesake. Unsolicited junk E-mail now accounts for 10% of all Internet traffic and up to 30% of the 26 million daily messages on America Online. Because spammers are such a fast-moving target--using constantly changing bogus return addresses--their stuff is almost impossible to stamp out. But help is on the way. Sendmail Inc., makers of the most popular E-mail-routing software, says its new version has a built-in antispam tool kit that includes a virtually spamproof address verifier...
Inside the framework, TIME has added sections (Essay, Behavior, Notebook) and dropped sections (Crime, Animals, Aeronautics), gone from postage-stamp head shots in its early news columns to full-page color displays in which photography and imaginative graphics play a larger part. Amid the proliferation of other sources--including all-news radio and television, national editions of daily newspapers and now the Internet--the magazine has evolved into a mix of news and features that play off the news instead of simply recapping it. The Essay section and signed columns have added stronger, more personal voices to the magazine. Cultural...