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...woman behind the scenes of much of our news coverage, Davis has learned to cope with the unforeseen. A native of Chappaqua, N.Y., she began her career in the news business quietly enough, as a secretary at LIFE in 1967. She first encountered the full pressures and unpredictabilities of journalism in 1972, when she went to work as secretary to TIME's deputy chief of correspondents. She later moved to the news desk, which serves as a liaison between our New York City editorial offices and our correspondents around the world. Davis became news desk manager in 1980, and five...
...most of all, Washington Goes to War depicts the remarkable, and largely unintended and unforeseen, metamorphosis of the nation's capital in the course of a mere five years. Washington, D.C. grew from being a quaint Southern town into a bustling, overcrowded city, with an enormous, permanent bureaucracy...
Each year, thousands of lesser-known Americans learn the hard way that buying a handgun does not assure protection, but only future trouble. They buy handguns with the expressed purpose of protecting themselves, only to end up using them during family spats or lovers' quarrels with tragic, unforeseen results...
...Athletic Department sometimes hires "kids who are not on work-study and for whom a crisis in the family or unforeseen financial problems have arisen," says Don Allard '83, assistant director of athletic operations and head coach for the freshman football team...
...such animals have existed only in laboratories, not in the marketplace. Patenting them would change that. Critics are concerned that the potential to make millions of dollars on, say, animal-generated pharmaceuticals will drive biotech companies to produce generations of bizarre creatures whose release into nature could have unforeseen consequences...