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Preservationists have long known that the best way to save architectural landmarks-great structures that catch the eye and stir the soul-is to find modern uses for them. Now the lesson is being increasingly applied to lowly warehouses, seedy hotels, abandoned stables and other cavernous buildings. These are the very structures that not long ago would have been judged blighted, then torn down and lost...
This week the Energy Research and Development Administration, created by Ford last October to map out the nation's route to alternate sources of power (TIME, April 14), published its first recommendations. The ERDA policy blueprint will not stir much hope for a quick solution to the complex energy dilemma. Concedes ERDA Deputy Administrator Robert Fri: "One message of the plan is that we're sorry, but there is no simple answer." The agency calls for stepped-up development of a wide range of new and existing energy technologies and resources. But up through the mid-1980s...
...Margaux is neither domestic nor domesticated. She's a free spirit," says her father, now 51. Still, there was a stir last Christmas when, for the first time, Margaux brought a man home. He was Errol Wetson, 34, a second-generation entrepreneur, whose father ran a variety of concessions in the East. Errol's career has been bold but erratic. Since age 18, when he and his brother started Wetson's hamburger chain, he has bought and sold antique cars, run a trendy Manhattan restaurant called Le Drugstore, imported soft denim, and backed the TV show Kung...
...study, Drs. Denis Madden, John Lion and Manoel Penna of the University of Maryland School of Medicine conclude that psychiatrists may have a definite tendency to stir violence in their patients. In a poll of 115 psychiatrists working in hospitals, clinics and in private practice, the Maryland team found that no fewer than 48 admitted that they had been assaulted by patients on one or more occasions. Most of the psychiatrists agreed that upon reflection, they themselves had probably, if unwittingly, provoked the attacks...
...Hoffman said that while liberals tried to fight indifference by making compromises that "swallowed them, up" and alliances that "backfired," the Libertarians should try to stir people to action...