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...Editors: As a Briton living in the States, I was impressed by your informative yet lighthearted coverage of the royals' visit [PEOPLE, Nov. 11]. You captured the mood inspired by Charles and Di at home, which is seldom understood outside the British Isles. Ronald and Nancy Reagan give the presidency a similar kind of glamour. Politics exists, whoever is at the top. The glitter makes the politics more bearable, even enjoyable. Susan Elliott-Booth Lacey, Wash...
...That's roughly the amount of electronic equipment a typical young Briton will throw away over a 78-year lifetime. The sculpture, commissioned by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) to draw attention to the European Union's Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) initiative, is meant to personalize and quantify the impact of a single person's gadgets on the environment. Currently, 90% of discarded electronics goes into landfills or is incinerated. Some of this waste contains lead, phosphor and barium, which have been linked to organ damage and other illnesses...
...discovery of a nude, blond and comely corpse on page 32. This year has already seen hard-boiled volumes by Leonard, MacDonald and Robert B. Parker at the peak of their form, and cunning British psychological thrillers by Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Ruth Rendell and the American would-be Briton Martha Grimes. The fall has brought a fresh crop, mostly from other hands. The styles range from taut police procedurals to literary romps, from old-fashioned puzzles to breezily constructed thrillers. These days the detective may be a policeman, a private eye or a blueblood amateur...
...Advancement of Learning (Countryman Press; 254 pages; $14.95) was written by Briton Reginald Hill in 1971 as the second book featuring his police duo Dalziel and Pascoe, but this is its first appearance in the U.S. Hill has written better books since, including this year's Exit Lines and the chilling 1984 portrait of a psychopath, Deadheads. Nonetheless, this volume is a skillful reworking of a standard routine in mystery fiction: the discovery of a long-buried skeleton and the consequent unraveling of a skein of past concealment and deceit. The setting is a mediocre British college, recently converted from...
...campus edition of 550,000 copies, and Time Inc. sponsors a summer intern program that enables selected students to work at TIME and other company publications, usually between their junior and senior years. TIME has special reason to believe in the abilities of young people. Henry Luce and Briton Hadden were only college sophomores when they began their remarkable partnership, later becoming managing editor and chairman of the Yale Daily News. Before their 25th birthdays, Luce and Hadden went on to found TIME...