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...thinking there is something leisurely about putting together a magazine that comes out only once a week. That is rarely true, and it certainly wasn't last week. On Saturday we were ready to go to press in the U.S. and Canada with a cover story on the frightening tide of violence among American youths when we heard news of the massacre in Beijing. Shortly before midnight, with the death toll rising into the hundreds, Executive Editor Ronald Kriss made the decision to change the cover. Then, as if things were not complicated enough, he heard that Ayatullah Khomeini...
...habits as the result of Japan's economic policies. Says former Foreign Minister Saburo Okita: "The Americans should take a second look at themselves. Obviously they cannot go on with runaway spending forever." The U.S. borrowing-and-spending binge, which involves both Government and consumers, has boosted the tide of imports to the U.S. The Japanese also complain that the U.S. has leadership problems of its own. Washington has been sending out conflicting signals because trade policy is shaped and shared by several Government departments -- including State, Defense and Commerce -- that are often at odds. The dispute about whether...
...rising tide of assaults has created a rippling pool of fear. Some teachers now send little girls to the bathroom in pairs. Young women say they are afraid to take a shower or run the hair dryer; the noise could mask an assailant's approach. At college parties, many coeds clutch their cocktail glasses, worried that knockout drops could be slipped into their drinks...
...indicates that the tide has turned and the body has become pro-choice. I think it's significant in that regard," said Pines (D-Newton...
...Agency for Nuclear and Alternative Energy, reported what has been dubbed "Frascati fusion," for the town near Rome where his team detected the neutron signature of cold fusion. This, plus other announcements from India and South America, was beginning to give the doubters pause. Then, on April 25, the tide turned. Georgia Tech, having hastily withdrawn its fusion results the previous week for fear that its equipment was bad, made the reversal official. "I don't think fusion occurred," said embarrassed team leader James Mahaffey. There was worse news to come. The collaboration between Brookhaven National Laboratory and Yale, using...