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...moved on from Weld 10. I got wasted by a professor in front of 300 people when I had the gall to wear a hat to his Gen Ed class. (I had rolled out of bed too late to shower, and so I grabbed my Union Pacific Railroad cap to cover my greases). I even got wasted once by Henry Rosovsky in front of 700 people in "Japan" class. (He asked for an example of a country with a very low level of per-capita income; I said "Kuwait" because I for some reason thought I heard him say very...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Four Years Later | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

...government has been forced to admit that radiation levels from Chernobyl were much higher than originally thought, and some farmers in the eastern part of the country have had to plow under tainted lettuce and cabbage crops. On Wednesday, Paris announced that five workers at a reprocessing plant at Cap de la Hague had accidentally received from .7 to 18 rems of radiation over their bodies. Five rems a year is the maximum exposure considered to be safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy and Now, the Political Fallout | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...even with all the time problems that makeme want to quit, when I put on my uniform andofficer's cap, I feel so proud of myself and mycountry that I don't want to [quit] anymore," saysan anonymous Navy midshipman

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Preparing Today for the Military Tomorrow | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...mind a chance to percolate and come to a conclusion intuitively can delay any important decision until the time for action expires," he says. That is "substituting study for courage." He advises executives not to fret about their lack of experience. Rowan recalls that King Gillette was a bottle-cap salesman when he dreamed up the safety razor. Concludes Rowan: "Inexperience may make us more daring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hailing the Eureka Factor | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

Bloodhounds working from the scent of a baseball cap found near the prison traced Dallas as far as the Paradise Hill Bar near Winnemucca, Nev., close to the mobile home where he had been captured four years ago. To some locals, Dallas embodied all the old gunslinger's heroics. He had proved that he was a faster draw than the wardens, who, in this view, had no business invading his mountain camp to find out whether he was poaching game, a God-given right in the wilderness. Never mind that Dallas had pumped shots into the heads of both victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call of the Wild | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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