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This week's cover story on the stock market and its gyrations was not a task for a numberphobe or the technologically faint of heart. "After nuclear proliferation, this is the most complicated cover I've ever tackled," says Associate Editor George Russell, who wrote the story. Following a stint as TIME's Buenos Aires bureau chief from 1979 to 1981, Russell returned to write in the World section for five years, then switched last March to Economy & Business. "Wars and coups are very decisive -- stories tend to write themselves when people are killing each other," he observes...
...seesawed through high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., and the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell, where she majored in biochemistry. But when she went for a master's degree in science writing at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and did a two-year stint at the Minneapolis Tribune, the move proved personally disastrous. "I wasn't used to Midwestern reticence," says the voluble Brody. "I felt very isolated and different. So I turned to food." Eventually she ballooned to 140 lbs., and there she floated until a kind of epiphany. "I just woke...
...After a stint as a junior fellow in the society of fellows, Herschbach went to the University of California at Berkeley as a junior professor. There, Herschbach said he meet Lee, then a graduate student, and worked with him on initial stages of his research...
Gorbachev is not so eager to reach an agreement with the U.S. that he will compromise Soviet security interests, nor so keen for perestroika that he will stint on defense. He sometimes feels compelled to remind his audience -- and certainly his critics -- that military security comes before economic well- being. But at the same time, SDI has forced Gorbachev and others to re- examine what they call "common security." For leaders who see themselves as the caretakers of a great revolutionary tradition, the men in the Kremlin are extremely conservative. They dislike discontinuity, uncertainty, unpredictability. SDI has compelled them...
...open the tournament, Harvard defeated cross-town rival MIT, 10-4, as Tri-Captain Ben Elizondo scored four goals and junior Wade Stokes had five steals. Freshman John Beber made five of seven saves in his stint at goal...