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> A computer program developed at the University of Wisconsin may take some of the surprise out of sudden summer squalls and tornadoes. Called MCIDAS (for Man-Computer Interactive Data Access System), the program uses some fancy extrapolation techniques to help local storm watchers locate pockets of impending bad weather that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Forecast Is for Accuracy | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

This is the type of human drama that fills the bizarre literary world of novelist John Irving. The author of the 1978 bestseller, The World According to Garp, Irving writes with a perpetual sense of impending doom--at any time some sort of garish literary vehicle similar to Claudio's...

Author: By --thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Lunacy and Sorrow | 7/23/1982 | See Source »

The impending showdown constitutes a survival test for Saddam Hussein's leadership. On the eve of battle, he moves peripatetically among his soldiers and civilians, escorting Western visitors around Baghdad to convince them that he enjoys the full support of his people. He clearly does, despite the increasingly disastrous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: Drums Along the Border | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

Argentina's leaders had only belatedly prepared the country's population for the impending defeat. Upon getting news of the surrender, knots of angry Argentines gathered on the Plaza de Mayo in front of the country's presidential Casa Rosada to hear a scheduled balcony speech by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, to Win the Peace | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

Those hardest hit by unemployment--the lower-middle and lower classes and minorities--have received another clear message of betrayal. The cancellation of billions of dollars worth of social programs to alleviate suffering and give deprived groups a chance for betterment dramatizes the government slack of interest in making America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reagan Inversion | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

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