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...beloved by readers and Hollywood alike: 17 of his 40 books have been made into movies. Even at 79, Elmore Leonard is back at his desk every morning, scrawling in longhand--no computers, please--his daily quota of pitch-perfect dialogue. He spoke to TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt from his home outside Detroit...
...take pride in doing at TIME is helping set a national agenda. Last year, after health researchers announced that two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, we published a 32-page special report on the problem. Also, TIME president Eileen Naughton, along with sciences editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, organized a conference in Williamsburg, Va., to address the issue. Co-sponsored by ABC News and supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the summit called together 400 leaders in the medical, corporate and public-policy fields to unravel how Americans got themselves into such...
...ATTUNE and presses the RETURN key, a series of messages selected to calm the spirit and quiet the mind scroll up the screen. "Close your eyes, pause quietly for a few moments and be here now," read the final instructions. "Press RETURN when you feel attuned." --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Robert C. Wurmstedt/Denver
...eventually be achieved. Brockway Mac-Millan, a retired vice president at Bell Laboratories who directed the development of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile software system in the early 1970s, agrees. "Given the proper tools and enough time," he says, "I think the software problems can be solved." --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
...robot-like characters in earlier computer films, De Peltrie looks and acts human; his fingers and facial expressions are soft, lifelike and wonderfully appealing. In creating De Peltrie, the Montreal team may have achieved a breakthrough: a digitized character with whom a human audience can identify. --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York and Dick Thompson/San Francisco