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Faced with the rising anxiety over air bags, which are currently found in 50 million vehicles on U.S. roads, federal safety officials last week pulled in the rules that regulate the devices for a thorough overhaul. "Air bags are working well," says Dr. Ricardo Martinez, who heads the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "but need to be improved to enhance the safety of children and small-stature adults." Toward that end, the agency rolled out a five-part proposal for air bags that, if adopted after public hearings, would cover every passenger car and truck sold...
There's no reason to believe an airline would be less thorough than the Clinton campaign. The question that needed answering was essentially the same: How little can you give your core constituency without causing a squawk? I was definitely not surveyed. Someone else must have said that he'd be willing to lunch on 11 fat-free pretzels. I might be blameless after...
...other side of the ball, Lynch, Iverson & Co. must do a thorough job marking Harvard forward Naomi Miller (13 goals), who has excelled at slipping free of defenses and putting the ball in the back...
...most conservative regions of Illinois, Hull faces a tough race; as challenger to 14-year veteran Philip Crane, her task is Herculean. But the English teacher and community activist is serious about her congressional mission. She supports the NEA and term limits and wants a thorough reassessment of the Defense Department to weed out a "scandalous amount of waste...
PAUL QUINN-JUDGE joins TIME as Moscow bureau chief, a beat he is thoroughly familiar with, having spent six years there, from 1986 to 1992, as bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor and the Boston Globe. Along with a grounding in Russian language and history, he says, "the most crucial tool for understanding the place is a thorough knowledge of Monty Python. Only this enables you to fully grasp the whiplash-like changes, from comedy to tragedy and sobriety to surrealism." A nose for news helps: Quinn-Judge was already at work on a story about infighting...