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...newest nuclear nations? "No, both sides are determined to avoid a war," says Rahman. "Instead we're looking at a long counterinsurgency as the Indian army comes under political pressure to retake the territory seized by the infiltrators." In other words, just business as usual in Kashmir. A surer indication that dispute will remain local: Even as their armed forces trade fire in the disputed province, both countries vowed Friday that the conflict wouldn't jeopardize their ongoing involvement in the cricket world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ronald Reagan's Missiles Turn Up in Kashmir | 5/28/1999 | See Source »

...genes in the human body. But that catalog, which will soon be completed, will be simply the springboard for understanding what all the genes do. Only when the network of their interactions with one another has been mapped will enduring benefits follow: in the surer design of drugs, in the growth of replacement organs, in the early detection and treatment of many kinds of diseases, including cancer. Only then shall we understand the subtleties of human behavior and how human personality evolves in the course of early life by the interaction of genetic and environmental influences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next? | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...McDonald clown character was familiar to 96% of American children, far more than knew the name of the President of the United States." Being a baby-boom company, McDonald's has found maturity a bit difficult. Its food today is as consistent as ever. But Americans are different, much surer of their tastes. They no longer need the security McDonald's provides. So the same assets that had made the restaurants so great started to turn against the company, especially after Kroc died in 1984. People looked at uniformity as boring, insipid and controlling, the Golden Arches as a symbol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burger Meister RAY KROC | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...happens to live in an e-mail friendly environment and on who happens to register his or her e-mail address with Harvard every time he or she switches to a new one and who you happen to know has registered. An e-mail account system would be simpler, surer, and more befitting of Harvard's quest for greatness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spend on Alumni E-Mail | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

...same time, says Holland, she wanted to emphasize the stronger, surer Catherine that emerges at the end of the film. "She wakes up with a kind of independent feeling," says the director. Driven to make her own living away from both men, "she becomes a full person, becomes herself...

Author: By Nicholas K. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ms. Holland Goes 19th C | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

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