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DeNoble and Mele set up an experiment in which rats could administer - nicotine to themselves by pressing one of two levers. DeNoble said rats would thump the bar as often as 90 times in 12 hours to get the nicotine, vs. just 12 times a day for a saline solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is That Smoke, Or Do I Smell a Rat? | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

CHINA. The Administration is unable to decide which of three inconsistent goals to stress most: pressing Beijing to stop jailing dissidents and making products with what amounts to prison slave labor; retaining China as a major trade partner and market for American goods and investment; pleading with the Chinese to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dropping the Ball? | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

"Clintonophobia" is an abnormal condition that strikes many conservatives today and manifests itself in the classic four Ds of their politics: denial, delay, derision and division. Unable to bring substance to the pressing issues of the day, conservatives see in the Clintons their worst fear: an activist Administration with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Examining Clintonophobia | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

"There's a big need out there for something positive," said the woman sitting next to me, Gail Marshall, who turned out to be a newspaper editor looking for inspiration rather than a story. "I need it to get away from the cynicism in our business." More typical testimony came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Get Motivated | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

Just the contemplation of punishment for Kelso was sufficient for his supporters to insist that he had suffered enough. One reason for the surprising lack of sympathy in the U.S. for the American student Michael Fay after he was sentenced to be caned in Singapore is the increasing recognition that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Eye: Seeing Stars Over Kelso | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

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