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...merger raises the possibility of conflicts of interest among the various parts of the Time-Warner empire. Could, for example, a Time publication objectively review a Warner Bros. movie? Certainly, said TIME Editor in Chief Jason McManus, who pointed out that for years TIME and PEOPLE have been reviewing, both favorably and unfavorably, shows produced by the company's Home Box Office cable service. In forming their union, Time and Warner officials agreed that a commitment to journalistic and artistic integrity was absolutely essential. When asked what would happen when one of the Time magazines panned a Warner film, Ross...
...allow time for the two enterprises to get thoroughly comfortable with each other, Munro and Ross are planning to go slow in integrating the various divisions. Only the cable and books operations will be immediately combined. All others will continue to operate as separate units, with Warner's old divisions reporting to Ross and Time's to Munro and Nicholas. Five years down the road, according to the merger agreement, the management will be unified, with Nicholas as the chief executive. "We're not going to crash these two companies together," said Nicholas. Both Time and Warner believe their greatest...
Western defense experts have been busy plugging the numbers in Gorbachev's various initiatives into their computerized war games, along with plenty of worst-case assumptions about the readiness of NATO. As a result, the bottom line of many such calculations has changed: the most often cited "sneak- attack scenario," which might before have yielded a Soviet victory, now leads to stalemate or even defeat...
...bomb was intended as retribution for the Iran Airbus tragedy, it was probably not the first such act of revenge. Various Iranian groups claimed, and investigators now widely assume, that the explosive device that blew up Pan Am's Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December was also a retaliatory strike. That resulted in the death of 270 people, mostly Americans. The prevailing theory among investigators is that the plan to destroy Flight 103 originated among Iranian Revolutionary Guards and was carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command...
Like cartographers mapping the ancient world, scientists over the past three decades have been laboriously charting human DNA. Of the estimated 100,000-odd genes that populate the genome, just 4,550 have been identified. And only 1,500 of those have been roughly located on the various chromosomes. The message of the genes has been equally difficult to come by. Most genes consist of between 10,000 and 150,000 code letters, and only a few genes have been completely deciphered. Long segments of the genome, like the vast uncharted regions of early maps, remain terra incognita...