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...there and at rivals NBC and ABC began to talk of the logical next step: a full hour of news. A quarter-century later, they are still just talking. But upstart Cable News Network, the 24-hour information service that began in 1980 and reaches 52 million households, has taken that step. Last week CNN launched The World Today, a 60-minute newscast (airtime: 6 to 7 p.m. EST) that in much of the U.S. competes head to head with the shows anchored by Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings...
...Tommy Hayes, the son and grandson of West Point major generals, rejects the sanctuary of graduate school. In a letter home he writes, "My country has invested a great deal in me as a soldier. I should like to repay that investment." The price is his life, taken in the jungle north of Saigon...
...between suggesting that an earthquake is likely to happen and pinpointing when. For now, scientists cannot say whether a specific section of the San Andreas fault will snap in one year's time or in a hundred, but they are working on it. Seismic silence is one clue. Soundings taken along the San Andreas over the past 15 years showed that the small earthquakes that are a daily event along other parts of the system were not occurring in the Santa Cruz mountains. Scientists argued over the significance of this blank spot in the data. Then a year ago, activity...
...omnipotence of television is so taken for granted these days that viewers are no longer amazed when a crackdown in Beijing or a hostage crisis in Beirut magically materializes in their living room. Far more surprising, and a bit unnerving, was the eerie sensation Tuesday night: the tidy coherence and instant packaging that normally make television such a reassuring national touchstone were replaced by the unusual experience of watching as the medium was forced to grope in the dark. "When you're used to being able to flick switches and have things pop up on satellites, it's frustrating...
Nimrud's glory ended abruptly in 612 B.C., when the Assyrians, badly overextended, were taken by surprise by the combined armies of the Medes, the Babylonians and the Scythians. Nimrud was overrun. The palace caught fire, and its ceilings collapsed. Over time, the Tigris changed course, and the glorious ziggurat was reduced to a formless mound...