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Like all good prehistoric beasts tend to do, the Dinosaur eventually disappeared, leaving behind only fossilized traces of his natural foodstuffs, his indigenous underwear, and his characteristic drug paraphernalia. He left behind no moral lessons, no cultural conundrums worth of opination, but only a stark example of the brutal spiral of natural selection, which fortunately left him with a brain incapable of responding to the printed word. Which means I won't get nuked...

Author: By John P. Thompson, BRAIN LINT: | Title: BRAIN LINT | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...videotape image showed a weary-looking American hostage with a stubbly growth of beard. "This is the last message," wrote Captive Alann Steen the next day. "Once again we announce that we will be executed at midnight." Steen issued his stark pronouncement in an open letter last week that was signed as well by fellow U.S. Hostages Robert Polhill and Jesse Turner. Terrorists were threatening to kill the Americans and Indian National Mithileshwar Singh, also a Beirut University College professor, unless Israel released 400 imprisoned Arabs by the following midnight. But as the deadline expired, the Islamic Jihad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages Stalemate in a Tormented Land | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Should AIDS somehow deeply invade heterosexual populations elsewhere, Africa has a stark lesson to teach about how suddenly and inexorably the disease can erode and destroy the comfortable assumptions and familiar habits of a more advanced culture that believes itself immune to the most primitive -- and frightening -- forces of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: In the Grip Of the Scourge | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...callers are heterosexuals who fear they might have the disease. Moreover, 40% of calls to the AIDS hot line in Illinois are from worried women. "Most say, 'I had too much to drink, and I went home with this guy,' " says Director Mary Fleming. "I hear stark terror in heterosexual women, who are deciding to be celibate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Chill: Fear of AIDS | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...expects the creaky 50-year-old system of providing Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and other welfare services to be + transformed overnight. The problems of training and finding jobs for welfare recipients -- teenage girls who drop out of school to have illegitimate children, to take the most stark example -- are immense. In the long run, money could be saved if a significant number of long-term welfare recipients could be placed in unsubsidized jobs and more absent fathers could be required to contribute to the support of children they have abandoned. But there is a problem: the additional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fixing Welfare | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

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