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...Iraqis fire usually with no electronic guidance, which would sound an alarm in U.S. cockpits. Often the only alert pilots have is the silent pop of charcoal-gray puffs of smoke from exploding artillery hundreds or thousands of feet below. U.S. pilots say they attack only after Iraqi forces threaten them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firing Blanks | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...even cure some of them. "We are in the midst of a complete and profound change in our development of cancer treatments," says Richard Klausner, director of the National Cancer Institute. The main upshot of this change is the sheer number of drugs in development--so many that they threaten to swamp clinical researchers' capacity to test them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Will We Cure Cancer? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...repercussions of rent control's demise continue to threaten public school enrollments in Cambridge, fixing the city's school choice system to please the influx of wealthier parents may become paramount...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Seasoned School Committee | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...seek to cut marketing and advertising costs by focusing on brands with a more youthful image. Oldsmobile, with sagging sales throughout the decade despite many attempts at a spruce-up, reportedly remains within earshot of the GM scrap heap, and Ford's recent acquisitions of Volvo and Jaguar could threaten the longevity of Mercury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plymouth Rocked; Chrysler Sinks a Brand | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...result of repeated military interventions. With the October coup, Pakistan is back to square one and time is fast running out. Should the present junta decide to retain power indefinitely, depriving 130 million Pakistanis of democratic avenues for bargaining, participation and dissent, political instability and internal divisions will threaten the very fabric of a state where history has the tendency of repeating itself as a farce...

Author: By Samina Ahmed, | Title: Avoiding Historical Repetition | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

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