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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cosmic Quarantine. C.S. Lewis theorized that perhaps other intelligent races never have known evil and that the vast distances in the universe might be "God's quarantine precautions" to "prevent the spiritual infection" of fallen mankind from spreading. David Fetcho of the cult-fighting Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dabbling in Exotheology | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

The news was not good. Dr. Ronald Altman, chief epidemiologist for the state's department of health, revealed that Rutherford residents had suffered 32 cases of leukemia and related cancers during the past five years. The eleven cases of Hodgkin's disease, he said, were more than would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Geography of Cancer | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

That is unlikely. Commodities trading is a booming business. Last year the value of commodities contracts traded hit $ 1 trillion, or five times the volume of all stocks and bonds that changed hands. And the CFTC is at last getting tough. Last week it ordered a ban as of June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Commodities Cop Cannonaded | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Nightwing by Martin Cruz Smith (Norton; $8.95). In a tour de non-force suspense novel that mixes virology and American Indian mythology, Hopi hopes and bureaucratic horrors, Author Smith, 35, weaves an all too believable parable of tribal endangerment. His unlikely detectives, a flaky young Indian deputy and an obsessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries That Bloom in Spring | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Such cooperation would clearly benefit both companies, but only to a limited extent. AMC Jeeps have been selling well in the U.S., but overseas they could face fierce Japanese competition. Making Renault's small, 32-m.p.g. Le Car would help AMC get the m.p.g. average of its total fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AMC Liaison | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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