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Completely changing the face of Intel, Grove set his assembly line to produce microprocessors instead of simple memory chips. Intel soon came out with the 386 microprocessor, which became an instant hit. And by the mid-80s, the personal computer, or PC, was becoming mainstream. In 1981 IBM made the little-publicized decision to use Intel chips in its PCs. Now, as the computer age exploded, Intel began to take off--and the rest was history...
From there, he was appointed bureau chief in Mexico, and covered the war in the Falklands between Great Britain and Argentina in the early '80s...
Regardless, however, many around at the time say the climate of the newsroom in the '70s and early '80s was one that was not friendly to homosexuals, and most stayed deeply within the closet for fear that discovery would affect their careers...
...ready availability of ecstasy, from Cobb County to Grand Rapids, is a newer phenomenon. Ecstasy--or "e"--enjoyed a brief spurt of mainstream use in the '80s, before the government outlawed it in 1985. Until recently, it remained common only on the margins of society--in clubland, in gay America, in lower Manhattan. But in the past year or so, ecstasy has returned to the heartland. Established drug dealers and mobsters have taken over the trade, and they are meeting the astonishing demand in places like Flagstaff, Ariz., where "Katrina," a student at Northern Arizona University who first took...
...World Bank's role there [WORLD, April 24] treated recent poverty figures much too lightly. Household surveys show that there are fewer poor people in Tanzania now than there were 10 years ago. Tanzania, like other African countries, lost half its export markets in the 1970s and '80s, essentially because small farmers were not rewarded enough for their efforts. As a result, they abandoned export crops and grew food mainly for themselves rather than for sale. Since 1995, Tanzanians have been putting this right. But 20 years of lost income cannot be reversed overnight. Certainly Africa's reforms have...