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...digital age, the trend is not toward media concentration but toward a wondrous diversity of voices. Each month dozens of new publications and Websites and information services are born. Only those that each day earn the trust of their users and readers will survive. At TIME we're not always going to be perfect in our judgments and criticism. But we promise that the mistakes we make will be due to our editorial fallibility rather than to corporate kowtowing. We'll keep foremost in our minds that our credibility, openness and editorial honesty are all we have to offer...
...digital age, the trend is not toward media concentration but toward a wondrous diversity of voices. Each month dozens of new publications and Websites and information services are born. Only those that each day earn the trust of their users and readers will survive. At TIME we're not always going to be perfect in our judgments and criticism. But we promise that the mistakes we make will be due to our editorial fallibility rather than to corporate kowtowing. We'll keep foremost in our minds that our credibility, openness and editorial honesty are all we have to offer...
...better or worse, the driving force behind that revolution is pure economics. Gamma-radiation knives, wondrous devices that focus tiny cobalt beams precisely on microscopic brain malignancies and malformations, cost $3 million each but may ultimately reduce the need for other costly therapies and thus afford a net saving to society. Sophisticated scanning devices--computerized axial tomography (CAT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and nuclear-imaging systems--cost hospitals millions of dollars, and patients (or their insurers) are typically charged thousands for their use. But by pinpointing hard-to-find tumors and other signs of disease, these machines save invaluable time...
...surrogate maiden aunt. Her name is Elaine. She is a clerk in a maternity boutique. What she knows about birthing babies has been gleaned from how-to books, about life from the dubious aphorisms of inspirational literature. But she is played by Mary Kay Place with a wondrous blend of primness and spunk. The girls may hobble her ankles to prevent escape, but they can't hobble a simple, can-do spirit convinced that their reform must be built on a foundation of nourishing casseroles...
Also, civic reputations have a long half-life. Chicago has had wondrous architecture for years, but it is still identified with Mob wars and the sort of political machine that urges its followers to vote early and often. If Dan Rostenkowski happened to be from Cleveland, would commentators on his fall have said that he couldn't shake the Cleveland way of doing things...