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One wonders, then, why no one has tried the obvious--why tenure appointments aren't made according to an objective, standardized method that can predict future performance with accuracy. Standardization, after all, is a well-established substitute for subjective and otherwise difficult decisions in admissions offices at every university, and...

Author: By Gary D. Rowe, | Title: A New Tenure System | 10/27/1987 | See Source »

Cynthia Cohan, 39, a Los Angeles lawyer and mother of two, tolerates her Cherokee's inconveniences in return for the advantages it gives her in negotiating war-torn freeway lanes. Its "macho presence," she says, keeps snippy sports cars from cutting her off. The desert-fox image holds little appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Jeep Chic Shifts into High Four-wheelers are no longer just for macho men | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Money-back guarantees have long been used to promote mail-order kitchen knives or lawn trimmers, but now that classic gimmick is helping sell a most unlikely product: prescription drugs. G.D. Searle -- best known for introducing the first birth-control pill and NutraSweet, the widely used sugar substitute -- is offering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: Easing Pains In the Wallet | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Glimpses of Goebbels' extensive chronicles have dribbled out piecemeal over the past 39 years, but late last month readers had their first comprehensive look at the Nazi's early writings with the publication of four volumes, running to 2,841 pages, by Munich's Institute of Contemporary History. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes Jottings from the Third Reich | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

Drugs, however, are not a substitute for diet and exercise, warns Ira Goldberg, an endocrinologist at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. He has already uncovered backsliders among his lovastatin patients. "We saw a couple of people whose cholesterol levels had gone down 30% to 40% but then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Ally Against Heart Disease | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

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