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...looked upon as a kingdom separate from plants and animals. Complicating matters is the fact that pieces of the A. bulbosa may have broken off over the millenniums. If so, do the pieces count as one organism or many? There's no agreed upon answer, says Clive Brasier, a British botanist. Insisting on a yes or no, he says, "gets to be a Guinness Book of Records kind of question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Humongous Fungus | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...Editor Eric Hawkins and Correspondent John O'Reilly expected to find a shambles when they reached the New York Herald Tribune's old office at 21 rue de Berri, home of the tourist-loved Paris Herald. Instead they found their bureau's prewar business manager, Renee Brasier, whisking the office into shape and talking plans for future work. Triumphantly she led them to the composing room. "There, cleaning up forms and oiling linotype machines, were mechanical employes of the paper, some of whom had worked for it since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Return to Paris | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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