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Dates: during 1980-1989
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China's bustling workplaces give further evidence that Deng Xiaoping's reforms are still on track -- and making headway. Western visitors to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces, where free enterprise thrives in factories and shops, have found no retreat from the reforms. To emphasize that the political furor in Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Settling for A Stalemate | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

Throughout the week, both Jerusalem and Washington took tentative steps toward repairing the damage. The Reagan Administration allowed Army Secretary John O. Marsh to make a previously scheduled trip to Israel. The Shamir government, reacting to pressure from Congress, announced that it would not sign new military sales contracts with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Brothers with Blood in Their Eyes | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Because the defective site is on the X chromosome, females (who are born with two Xs, one inherited from each parent) are less often affected by the syndrome; their normal X chromosome can mask the effects of the faulty one. But males, who have one X and one Y sex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tracing Fragile X Syndrome | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

The third candidate, President Khamene'i, is the only one who has remained unaffected by the U.S. affair. He has been the prime mover recently in Iran's somewhat improved relations with the Soviet Union and the resumption of natural-gas exports to Moscow. This is not likely to strengthen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Meantime Back in Tehran | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

The final step was to irrigate the plants with a solution containing luciferin, another substance found in fireflies, which must combine with luciferase, oxygen and adenosine triphosphate, a substance found in all cells, to produce the familiar luminescence. The plant's well-being is unaffected by the glow, which can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Of Fireflies and Tobacco Plants | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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