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The participants in the curious exercise were neither cultists nor performance artists but astronomers--albeit amateur ones. Recruited largely via the Internet, they were helping the astronomical pros study the occultation--or eclipse--of Aldebaran, an observation that could lead to a more precise estimate of the moon's diameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALLING ALL AMATEURS | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

Maybe so, but friends and foes alike were quick to point out that her figures are anything but solid. The original trigger for Browner's proposal was a lawsuit brought by the American Lung Association. The suit accused the EPA of ignoring new scientific evidence showing that small particles in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAROL BROWNER: THE QUEEN OF CLEAN AIR | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

The Clean-Air Act went a long way toward making the air we breathe cleaner and healthier, but it didn't go far enough. Despite the tons of lead, sulfur dioxide and other combustion products filtered from the atmosphere, millions of Americans suffer from pollution-related breathing disorders, including asthma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMOG ALERT | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

Last year the 42-year-old director paid a dozen visits to the ocean-floor site of the Titanic wreck, some 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland and 2 1/2 dark and chilly miles below the surface, to shoot footage. That meant nearly three hours drifting to the bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GLUB, GLUB, GLUB... | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

This is the little cigarette that could: it came, it saw, it conquered. The trendiest smoke on college campuses these days emanates from Indian imports called beedies (from the Hindi bidi). About half the diameter of regular cigarettes and hand rolled in tendu (Indian ebony leaves), they look slightly like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 28, 1996 | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

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