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...Miami Rhapsody," isn't a movie you should run to see if you're dying for an evening of intellectual angst, emotional turmoil or even a reference worth remembering to impress fellow cocktail party minglers. But, this season's feel-good romantic comedy will soothe your shopping-period fried neurons with a quick fix of romantic revelry...
Some of the turmoil it gets into is the fault of mistaken reporters, heavy-handed editors or sloppy proofers. And some of it is the fault of students and administrators who don't agree with a given story because they're too biased about the issue, or because the opposing side was given any play at all. "Crimeds," especially reporters, put up with a lot of rudeness, abruptness, hostility and interference from the people they attempt to cover...
Little more than a year ago in Chiapas state, the eruption of the rebel Zapatista National Liberation Army triggered national turmoil. Renewed militancy there last month was widely seen as contributing to the wrecking of the peso and the loss of billions of dollars around the world. Whatever the global reaction, in Chiapas the small band of rebels has reason to be awed at the impact of its efforts. Army units were rushed in not only to combat the rebels but also to help improve the life of peasants by building clinics, schools and roads. Government public works projects picked...
...most compelling evidence to date of giant black holes was offered by U.S. scientists in the cover article for this month's Nature magazine. Using a string of radio telescopes, spread from the Caribbean to Hawaii, scientists identified an area of turmoil in space 1 1/2 light years wide -- or 40 million times the size of the Sun. TIME science reporter Michael Lemonick reports that "the very strong assumption is that it has got to be a black hole." He explains that black holes were believed to come in two types: many the size of one star, and others believed...
Despite guarded U.S. support for Yeltsin's right to put down the Chechnya rebellion,TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllisterreports that "subterranean turmoil" over how to handle the Russian leader is now festering in the Clinton Administration's ranks. At State, he says, several officials argued unsuccessfully for cancellation of a scheduled meeting in Geneva next week between Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev to discuss the future of NATO. McAllister says: "Here's a government (Russia) that's committing fairly substantial human rights abuses, and that's not something that Christopher can easily ignore...