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...1920s and 1930s, TlMEstyle was a clever, sometimes irreverent blend of double-barreled adjectives (bald-domed, haystack-haired), word combinations (Nobelman, cinemaddict), neologisms (tycoon, socialite) and inverted sentences. Although that approach changed long ago, style, in a different sense of the word, remains vital to the magazine. Maintaining TIME's linguistic standards and revising them when necessary are the responsibility of the Copy Desk. Says Copy Chief Susan Blair: "Our main concern is to make the magazine as easy as possible to read. We don't want to throw the reader any curves...
...Force servicemen and civilian employees at the Rhein-Main Air Base call it the gateway to Europe, and with good reason. Located opposite Frankfurt International Airport, Rhein-Main is almost a city unto itself, the largest and most vital link in the U.S. military airlift command. For that reason it is a prime target for terrorists. Last week they struck with a vengeance, setting off a car bomb that killed a 19-year old airman on temporary duty and the wife of another airman assigned to a medical airlift squadron. Twenty-one people were injured...
Despite their woes, U.S. semiconductor makers remain world leaders in many products. American firms hold a 64% share of the vital market for logic chips, or microprocessors, which carry out stored instructions. The Japanese, by contrast, have a 27% share. "For the time being, the logic-chip business is safe from foreign competition," says Stuart Johnson, who watches the semiconductor industry for the Manhattan firm of Wertheim & Co. "Logic chips are far more difficult than memories to copy and redesign." But U.S. manufacturers may soon face tougher Japanese competition in that market as well. --By John Greenwald. Reported by Cristina...
...marvel of technical virtuosity and medical logic. Cerebral bypass surgery was designed to circumvent one of the most common causes of strokes: a blockage in one of the arteries that carry blood to the brain. To reroute blood around a blocked vessel, the surgeon uses a nearby, less vital artery to build a bypass road. Taking this detour, blood continues to flow to the brain, and the risk of a stroke's occurring is presumably lessened...
Even if a breakthrough agreement on a vital foreign policy issue could be reached, the survey indicated considerable skepticism about whether it would work: 66% do not believe the Soviets can be trusted to keep their end of the bargain, and a surprising 28% think the U.S. is similarly unlikely to honor the fine print of a pact...