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...latest reckoning, some 32 million people read it each week, more than 23 million in the U.S. and the rest abroad. TIME now connects a dentist in Kyoto, a stockbroker in Bonn, an interior decorator in Boston--and five subscribers on tiny Tuvalu Island in the South Pacific (occupations unknown...
...quarter-century of secession from the world at large, Burma resembles nothing so much as a cob-webbed attic cluttered with sepia-toned relics, moth-eaten keepsakes and old curiosities. Along the capital's streets, there are no high-rises, no nightclubs, no neon signs; even Coca-Cola is unknown here. At the offices of Burma Airways, as in every other office, there are no typewriters, let alone computer terminals, just bulky Dickensian ledgers thick with dust. The country boasts two TV stations, but neither of them broadcasts for more than two hours a day. If Burma did not exist...
...vacuum all objects, regardless of mass, fall at the same speed. Galileo's work went unchallenged until last week, when Purdue University Physics Professor Ephraim Fischbach, three of his graduate students and S.H. Aronson, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, reported discerning a previously unknown force that causes objects of different masses to fall at different rates...
...Minister of the Economy in 1979 and 1980, to the Madrid meeting of its European Board of Economists. His conclusion: Spain and Portugal might suffer a few short-run shocks from E.G. membership but would ultimately benefit. Leal admitted, though, that the two nations were "jumping into the unknown...
...sense, they were like infants, their prospects in life a mystery, their potential unknown. And so it was that when the Bell system was broken up two years ago, the seven regional phone companies[*] that resulted were soon dubbed the Baby Bells. Today the scattered siblings are not yet mature, but they are rapidly asserting their newfound independence...