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...power, drinking water and transportation. Now, after a decade of drought that has left parts of central Africa on the brink of starvation, the Nile is running perilously low. For the first time since the Aswan High Dam was finished in 1970, serious shortages of water and hydroelectric power threaten Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Drought Stalks the Mighty Nile | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

There is the fallacy that Mexicans, Salvadorans and Haitians threaten our jobs--a fallacy because these are jobs that even the poorest American citizens refuse to take. And the prejudiced stereotype of Asians as miracle-brains seems a good excuse to limit our sympathy. Xenophobia is nothing less than and insidious form of racism...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Billboards: Threatening Signs for Illegals | 3/22/1988 | See Source »

...rest of the Bruins' efforts was not enough to threaten the Crimson, led by Kosh's excellent full-court pressure and brilliant handling of the fast break...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Women Cagers Scorch Brown, 71-60 | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

Frequent- flyer plans threaten a vulnerable airline industry. -- The Fed may be facing political pressures. -- Welcome to "hell camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: MARCH 7, 1988 Vol. 131 No. 10 | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...direct and bone-dry style that balances Thesiger's luxuriantly romantic relish for tribal peoples and desolate places. The Life of My Choice says goodbye to all that and good riddance to the 20th century and its airships, land vehicles and instant communication, which destroyed the silence and threaten a world Thesiger saw just in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Before the Sands Ran Out THE LIFE OF MY CHOICE | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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