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...Lisa Beyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline Security: Is This What We Really Want? | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...Lisa Beyer, our Society editor, knows something about the tricky business of squeezing people into categories. She has successfully defied being put into a pigeonhole herself, having worked as a muckraking journalist in Singapore, later as our Jerusalem bureau chief and more recently as an editor of TIME cover stories ranging from human cloning to the life of Jesus. A native of Louisiana and graduate of the University of Texas, she has tried other walks of life, including delivering pizza and running a computer magazine. Lisa's breadth of interests--and standard of excellence--came in handy for editing this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Society | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...making choices for this installment, on Society and Culture, Lisa and assistant managing editor Priscilla Painton enlisted dozens of staff members with whom they led "unending debates that began months ago," says Beyer. First they chose the categories, including such traditional roles as athlete and teacher, but they also strived to explore some professions for which there are rarely any academic degrees or award programs, such as best advice columnist and best feminist. Then came the process of naming names. "In our staff meetings I had to actually limit the time we'd devote to America's Best because otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Society | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...life, he spoke tearfully about his mom, showing a rarely seen side of the indomitable Coach K. "I've watched his Duke teams physically and psychologically destroy my beloved Maryland Terrapins for years now," says Tyrangiel. "During the interview, I felt like I should be the one crying." Observes Beyer: "The thing that struck me as the most common element running through this group was a kind of fundamental humanity. Take our best humorist, David Sedaris. He sends up his family members in shocking ways, but still you can tell, reading him, that his loved ones are really loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Society | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...transferred and the bacteria they used to transfer those genes were encumbered by patents and proprietary rights. Only after extensive negotiations have the two scientists managed to strike a deal with Syngenta, Monsanto and the four other companies that held exclusive licenses to the technologies used by Potrykus and Beyer to create golden rice. In exchange for commercial marketing rights in the U.S. and other affluent markets, the companies recently agreed to donate the technology free to developing countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grains of Hope | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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