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Monitor Archive for December 4, 1984
Stretching the limits of the mystery genreThe Killing Doll, by Ruth Rendell. New York: Pantheon Books. 258 pp. $12.95.
Socialist Tanzania may be climbing out of its economic hole. Devaluation of currency, price hikes could win help from World Bank
Novice hockey league fulfills adult dreams
Ask the Gardeners, Q&A.
Five plants made to order for the inexperienced indoor gardener
Europe's space engineers want to put wings on Ariane rockets
They'll beg, buy, or bomb for those French book prizes
News In Brief
Floral artist decorates with natural materials
Will France and Britain choose the 'chunnel' or the 'brunnel'?
Tip's last hurrah
News In Brief
News In Brief
Mardy Murie links past, present environmentalists
News In Brief
Enterprise zones
Sur-passing stature
Nation's 1 in 5 adult illiterates will get new attention next month
News In Brief
News In Brief
Sound of traditional church bells still heard - but less often
States responding to US prod on drinking age
RECORD GUIDE. ROCK/POP/JAZZ
Irish simmer at Thatcher's peremptory putdown
News In Brief
Preparing wood furniture for refinishing
Program offers new freedom for illiterate ex-convicts
Anti-apartheid protests spread to cities across US
News In Brief
By the Memorial Gate
Verification big arms-control hurdle
Countering TV toyland bonanza is group's aim
News In Brief
If I hadn't met Mr. Zbrozek
Beachings lead to theory that whales follow magnetic 'highways'
East bloc assails UN labor agency as Poland threatens to quit
The Shultz-Gromyko talks: don't discuss 'star wars'
The choice to reject drugs
Ottawa Conservatives lose no time in letting businesses go private
High-tech's clean image begins to tarnish
Political sparring pulls California's judicial system into the ring
News In Brief
Dig into gardening with quality tools
Delectable tidbits of literary journalismThe Literary Journalists, edited by Norman Sims. New York: Ballantine Books. 339 pp. $8.95 (paperback).
PEARL HARBOR
Using patience, persistence, quiet diplomacy to 'work small miracles' at the UN
News In Brief
Honda designs competing division, US-style
China reinvents itself: new capitalists line up to lure US firms
2nd-term wisdom
News In Brief
China stalks foreign partners and cash. But Chinese zest for joint ventures is not yet matched by business sense
Can computers think? No says Yale expert Roger Schank - at least not yet
Keep moving to deal with tension
News In Brief
Let's get on with weapons testing reform
Karl Bodmer's vanishing frontier
In British coal miner Dave Johnson's house, the only hint of strike is TV news
News In Brief
December
Back to the lab
News In Brief
Church-state: no longer a burning issue?
Not much research on workplace conditions
Spain, Britain crack deadlock over the Rock