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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The modern airliner, as all know, cleverly compresses the minor irritations of several days or weeks of travel into a few hours of astonishing misery. There is no need to speak of the automobile, superb for drive-in banking, exasperating for other uses. What else is there? Dog sledding, backpacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Reinventing The Train | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

The Van Allsburgs, who have no children, now live in Providence, where he teaches illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. He says his academic immersion in the subject had nothing to do with it, but the 13 pictures he produced for Swan Lake are stylistically among the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rhinoceroses in The Living Room | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

To a great degree, American business has turned to its principal competitor, Japan, to learn how to restore quality. Ironically, what U.S. executives think of as "the Japanese method" was pioneered largely by an American statistician, W. Edwards Deming, 89, who began preaching the quality gospel to receptive Japanese industrialists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quest For Quality In U.S. Goods: Making It Better | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Another clergyman, who is a regional director of priestly education in one of the larger men's orders, explained to TIME the justification for his private homosexual life during recent years. "We'll never know what is right or wrong until we open up the issue and look at people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Battle over Gay Clergy | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

Much of what the critics say is based on secret documents and firsthand experience, and will be hard for the government to refute. People's Deputy Yuri Voronezhtsev, from Byelorussia, near Chernobyl, says medical records contradict the official claim that iodine was given to all of those exposed to radiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Chernobyl Cover-Up | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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