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Computers have not replaced the human touch in TIME's research--that spark of humor, that willingness to make the extra effort. Time Chronicles editor Bruce Handy delights in using Nexis to track quirky statistical trends, such as last week's chart of the popularity of various presidential adjectives. (Clintonian, with 536 citations over 15 years, edged out Reaganesque, with 473). "I've never heard anyone at the center admit defeat," says Chicago bureau chief James Graff, a devoted fan. "Last month we requested information on a drug bust, date unknown, in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park. The faxes...
...CHART "THE WAR'S TOLL," WHICH accompanied our story on Bosnia [DIPLOMACY, Dec. 4], the estimated number of casualties on all sides of the war should have been...
...embarking on an ambitious new kind of political poll. For the TIME/CNN Election Monitor, pollsters from Yankelovich Partners have 4,787 registered voters, an especially large sample that permits a high degree of accuracy. Between now and the 1996 election they will return to those same individuals to chart the fluctuation of their views. At each juncture TIME and CNN reporters will also talk to some of them in greater detail to see what's on their minds and how it affects their judgment of the candidates...
...1870s Henry Adams wrote that all you have to do to disprove Darwin's theory of evolution is chart the course of the American presidency from George Washington to Ulysses Grant. Downhill Darwin: a century later the process would yield a choice between a south Georgia peanut farmer and a washed-up Hollywood actor...
Holsteins are hardworking Danish cows who make it possible for well-disciplined families to earn a living from ground not good enough to grow corn or soybeans. Dairying is not a sentimental line of work, however, and a cow's productivity chart hangs by the stall where she can see it: she knows that when her output declines she's dead meat; retraining will not be an option. Dogs and cats, when hunting became too hard, retrained as house pets, but a large hoofy animal that chews its own vomit will never be welcome in the American home...