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...Pumps this, Reebok Pumps that." The fourth-grader wanted her to buy him a pair of the flashy high tops and explaining why she refused to part with $150 for athletic shoes got her nowhere. Then Scott read that the Pump was heavy and can be uncomfortable. End of tug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Kids Do the Testing | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...taken as a sign that life is getting better. The hope persists, although the county has one of West Virginia's highest rates of infant mortality: 13.5 per 1,000 births, one-third above the national average. "It's always been a problem," says Franki Patton, director of Tug River Clinic's maternal and infant health program. "But I think the community has gotten used to it. They don't want to lose their babies, but they see it as a part of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Virginia: Babies in the Balance | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. The lacerating suspense of Thomas Harris' novel is missing from this earnest adaptation, but if you haven't read the book about an FBI trainee tracking one serial killer with the help of another, you ought to see the movie. Main attraction: the intellectual tug-of-wills between Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Mar. 25, 1991 | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...fiscal tug-of-war may erupt between the statehouse and Massachusetts local governments in the wake of President Bush's proposal last week to transfer federal aid from local municipalities to the states, city officials said last week...

Author: By Yin Y. Nawaday, | Title: Cambridge to Lose Millions from Federal, State Cutbacks | 2/13/1991 | See Source »

...this century, while blacks were generally supportive of both world wars, their discontent erupted publicly during Vietnam, when Martin Luther King Jr. and others opposed an unfair draft that conscripted the disadvantaged while allowing many sons of the middle class to escape military service. Those divided loyalties continue to tug at blacks today and will add to the burden of unfinished business awaiting the homecoming soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blacks: Too Much of the Burden? | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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