Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equally demanding with staff. Only the best would do. One of them, Jason McManus, succeeds Grunwald as editor-in-chief. McManus was reporting for TIME's London bureau in 1958 while still a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. He was the magazine's first Common Market bureau chief, and has served in a wide range of editorial positions, including TIME managing editor and deputy to the editor-in-chief...
...bottle-nose dolphins wash ashore this summer with their flesh rotted and their livers damaged. Marine biologists suspect that an additional 200 dolphins have died at sea and that the entire coastal population is endangered. Last week scientists took a step toward identifying the mysterious killing disease: infection from common, usually harmless bacteria known as vibrios...
...accounts for less than 1% of the 170,000 new cases of colorectal cancerdiagnosed in the U.S. and Britain each year. That led Bodmer to ask, "Could the same gene be involved in the normal run of colon cancers?" The researchers analyzed tumors removed from 45 patients with common colorectal cancer. Result: the section of chromosome 5 that contains the FAP gene was missing in more than 25% of the cases. The finding suggested that such cancers occur only after one protective gene is lost and the other is inactivated. Says Gastroenterologist Sidney Winawer, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer...
Along about sundown, the cocktail shakers begin their rumba-like rhythm. Knots of friends and neighbors, English speakers all, gather to gossip or reminisce. Then someone will raise a glass to their common good fortune. After all, not everyone can live in paradise, and not everyone wants...
...high-pitched voice that could pierce the din of the loudest bar, he takes off after everything from convenience stores (where "$20,000 worth of cameras protect $20 worth of Twinkies") to slasher movies ("Woman opens the refrigerator, gets hit in the face with an ax. There's a common household accident, huh?"). Leno's P.G.-rated material is witty, accessible and firmly anchored in bedrock middle America. "I'm hopelessly American," he confesses. "If something doesn't come in a Styrofoam box with a lid on it, I'm lost...