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...chief, Tennessee's Howard Baker asked for Laxalt's support. He got it. Says Laxalt: "Howard's done a good job. He's one of the best consensus achievers." Baker then promptly announced that he had Laxalt's backing in a successful maneuver to ward off any coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Eyes and Ears on the Hill | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...States at the time has only a few atom bombs. Also, it has a monopoly. Neither condition any longer persists. Americans need to reread John Hersey's Hiroshima. Anyone who calls for limited nuclear war is a madman. He must be seized and placed under heavy guard in a ward for the criminally insane. Henry Ratliff

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SISTER/BRO. AMERICANS-- | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

Finally, a biopsy technique developed in 1972 is helping doctors tell when a patient's immunological defense system is attempting to reject the transplant. Drugs used to suppress rejection also limit the body's ability to ward off infection. The biopsy technique allows drugs to be used with more precision, thus tempering their undesired effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Life for Heart Transplants | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...academy is one of the key institutions that are leading China's shift from ideology to ward pragmatism. Says Huan: "We try to get away from dogma, from what Marx said or what Lenin or Mao said. That's a reference. But we need to start from the facts." Though Huan argues that scholars can follow "the facts" without political interference, it is unlikely that one of them could publish articles criticizing the Communist system. Yet there is more leeway for questioning than at any other time since the Communists came to power. Says Huan: "Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: We Learned from Our Suffering | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

Although many students think of Room 13 as an offshoot of the University Health Services (UHS) psych ward, Burger and her co-coordinator, Gary Siegelman '81, stress that the staffers are not a group of aspiring psychiatrists testing their ability to take apart people's minds. Chosen each spring after a competitive selection process--last year 120 applied for 18 positions--the counselors' interests range from government to biochem. But Burger says, they have one thing in common--the ability "to deal sensitively with all kinds of issues...

Author: By William F. Powers, | Title: Room 13: Keeping the Midnight Watch | 11/7/1980 | See Source »

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