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Addressing an audience of 25 in a speech sponsored by the Women in Science organization, Med School biochemist Linda Brink said that sexism is a fact of life in medical, scientific, and hi-tech careers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sexism Cited in Science Fields | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...with a home-attendance clause in his contract (almost six bits a ticket after 1.5 million), this is the definition of integrity. Though Rose had said, "I have a way of things always turning out right for me," nobody caught the suggestion that he was on the brink of two wonders, the other one timing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Pete's Sake, He Cried | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Ike's friends returned from the brink in a Texas hospital. They have since recovered from their injuries, but the deepest wounds will never heal...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: The Last Road Trip | 8/16/1985 | See Source »

...trees had silhouettes of arms and heads and tentacles. I liked being scared. It was very stimulating. In my films I celebrate the imagination as a tool of great creation and a device for the ultimate scream, and even as a kid I liked pushing myself to the brink of terror and then pulling back. In the morning I was the bravest guy -- little seven-year-old Steven walking around the closet, or talking to the trees, saying, "I'm not afraid of you." But once night fell, all bets were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...lifers have done," says Lauren Virshup, executive director of the California branch of NARAL, "but what we do will have a life of its own." Argues Virshup of what she hopes will be a reinvigorated pro-choice movement: "When people really understand that we may be on the brink of losing legal abortion, the energy we once had will return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silent No More | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

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