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In the early 1870s, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both discovered the possibility of voice transmission, but Gray ignored the potential of the telephone in the erroneous belief that telegraphy would remain the dominant means of communication. In the early 1950s, technicians used the newly invented transistor simply as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Dashed Hopes and Bogus Fears | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

When the klieg lights of the summit have faded and the lambent glow of history takes over, Bush's response to the controversy set off by the Wellesley seniors may be what is remembered. While the First Lady's official cause is literacy, her unofficial mission is to convince a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Another Cold War | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

A. We accept that there will be a unified German state in Europe. That is the natural right of the German nation. But let me remind the Germans that the unification of the two Germanys concerns not only them. It is pivotal to the entire European process; it affects the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev Interview: I Am an Optimist | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

Carnes says sex addicts, generally, were abused as children. They suffer from low self-esteem and use compulsive sex as a substitute for the love and < acceptance they never got at home. They develop an elaborate system of denial to delude themselves into thinking that their behavior is acceptable.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Do People Get Hooked on Sex? | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

At issue is a new trend in the drug industry: a growing number of prescription medications, from allergy tablets to birth-control pills, are being promoted directly to consumers in newspaper and magazine ads and even a few TV commercials. Drug companies and some physicians say the ads help educate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Just What the Patient Ordered | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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