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...just as soon avoid. Until then, Bush will remain the President's surrogate, stumping in such states as Connecticut and Texas, where he has pull, and fanning out to remote regions Reagan lacks the time to reach. The running mate traditionally takes over the low road, but slinging mud at a woman is as yet an imperfect political art. Bush so far has limited his jabs to Mondale, waiting for the novelty of Ferraro to wear off. "George by nature is not a slasher," assures a current campaign official. However, notes Bush's press secretary, Peter Teeley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Running Mate | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...room exploded like a fire bomb, and the youngsters ran out of the house screaming, their bodies aflame. Neighbors, who called paramedics, said the children were so charred that they seemed to be covered with mud. The brothers' friend had the most severe injuries: he died two days later. The Selbys' condition was also grim, with scorched skin over 97% of their bodies. At least 83% of the wounds were of the most serious kind: third-degree burns in which both the upper and lower layers of the skin, the epidermis and dermis, are destroyed and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Miracle of Test-Tube Skin | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...Broadway on Showtime" series, premiered on Sunday and will repeat this Wednesday and on several dates next week and next month.) Jessica Lange, who stars as Maggie the Cat, leaps into her syrupy, Scarlett O'Hara cadences like an eight-year-old sloshing around in a mud puddle: "One of the no-neck mahn-stuhs messed up mah luv-ly lace dress." O.K., folks, one can almost hear her say, just watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Maggie the Cat Is Alive! | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...clean them up," says General Nazar Abdul-Kerim. Indeed, it is summer, and the harvest is finished, so the Kurds have time for fighting. By the same token, the Iranians find the warm but dry weather good for conducting military operations through passes that are choked with snow and mud for more than half the year. The general will not say that his country is actively helping the Kurds in Iran, but other Iraqi commanders have acknowledged that they supply and assist them as a way of distracting the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: A Way to Distract the Enemy | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...explains them by saying, "Well, you're kind of on top of the world. Where else could you have this horizon? And some stayed in place even in the earthquake in '71. You may get a slide, but then the sun comes out, you clean up the mud, and you're here for another season. You build a retaining wall." A journalist who lives here volunteers that "people say, 'That felt like a 5.3 or a 6.8.' What really concerns them is an 8.1. They never say Richter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: In Search of the Angels | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

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