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...Sweeney. In Hinsdale, Ill., for example, Fran Gaik shows off her new exercise center with all the enthusiasm householders once displayed for renovated living rooms and master bedrooms. The contemporary black-and-gray room with padded wallpaper and a mirrored wall contains a built-in sound sys- tem, a luxurious whirlpool-sauna and tanning bed, and about $4,400 worth of exercise apparatus. "It's very sensuous," says Gaik, 35, who with her husband owns a company that sells health insurance. "My friends almost look at it as an orgy room...
...oppose any limits on antisatellite weapons or a moratoriumon testing them. They want to test the newest such device in November. State Department arms experts, on the other hand, have been working on a variety of plans, including one that would permit each side to deploy one space-weapon sys tem to knock out relatively low-altitude satellites, while limiting the destruction of high-flying satellites that are currently be yond the reach of any existing system. "We're willing to talk about anything," claimed a State Department official. "The Pentagon is willing to talk about nothing...
...pipeline is probably working at close to its capacity, and the CIA is determined not to upset its delicate sys tem. For that reason, the agency has, in recent months, refused to increase the quality or quantity of U.S. aid to the Afghan rebels. Last month, however, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would make Pakistan one of five countries where more than six military advisers may be stationed...
...reporting on the troubles that Japan's Sony Corp. is encountering, TIME stated that companies such as Toshiba and NEC have abandoned Sony's Beta videotape sys tem in favor of the VHS method developed by Sony's archrival Matsushita. This is not true. Toshiba and NEC are continuing to offer the Beta format to their customers. TIME regrets the error...
Moreover, at a tab of $9 million, the sys tem's price is about $1 million less than a conventional heating-cooling plant...