Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the new wing of Louvain Prison near Brussels is hardly luxurious, its color television sets, recreation rooms and large cells with attached bathrooms make it a relatively comfortable place to await trial. But the situation of the 26 English soccer fans now housed there is anything but comfortable. After being extradited from Britain, they face manslaughter charges arising from riots during the 1985 European Cup championships in Brussels' Heysel Stadium. Thirty-nine spectators died as they fled rabid English fans. Most of the victims were crushed to death...
DESCRIPTION: Color illustration shows how new drug lovastatin inhibits cholesterol production...
...years ago Psychologist Darlene Powell-Hopson of Middletown, Conn., tested 155 black and white youngsters between the ages of three and six in Headstart programs or preschools in New York City, on Long Island and in Connecticut. Using 20 Cabbage Patch dolls identical except for color, Hopson asked the children to give her the doll that "you want to be, you want to play with, is a nice color and would take home if you could." To Hopson's surprise, 65% of the black youngsters selected white dolls...
DESCRIPTION: Color illustration shows how arteries can get clogged up by cholesterol...
...procedure that TIME has increasingly used as part of its coverage of late-breaking news around the world, each picture was first converted into millions of computer digits, and that information was stored on tape. Then it was beamed via satellite to the TIME Impact (for Image Processing and Color Transmission) Center in New York City. There Seth Zeitlin, one of six systems managers, received the data on tape and entered the information into TIME's computer system. Finally a high-resolution picture was printed, and Richer could see the photo that Moyer and Kim had selected less than...