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...toolbox needed to assemble animals as disparate as worms and flies, mice and fish. And paleontologists are exploring deeper reaches of the fossil record, searching for organisms that might have primed the evolutionary pump. "We're getting data," says Harvard University paleontologist Andrew Knoll, "almost faster than we can digest it." (See a photo-essay on Darwin...
...design comes just as TIME is redoubling its electronic presence. Time Daily, a news digest launched a year ago, has gone from being posted once a day to being continually updated. "Our correspondents are reporting more than enough fresh news and exclusives to update nonstop," says Time Online senior editor Janice Castro. "Readers can tap into what we know on a daily and even hourly basis." And thanks to photo editor Jay Colton, the Daily now includes maps and pictures as well...
Feeding time has commenced once again, and time will tell whether Harvard can finally digest its dinner...
...ribs served at the annual banquet for "lifers'' at one Massachusetts facility or the federal court order that required North Carolina to equip each of 13 prisons with a set of drums, three guitars and five Frisbees. Both of those examples were mentioned in a November 1994 Reader's Digest article that has become, if not a manifesto, then at least a ready inventory of gripes for the no-frills movement...
Neither has much in common with Vanity Fair, which is one reason Gingrich likes them. Some troubling realities of that era, such as segregation, were not acknowledged amid the heartwarming Americana served up by the Digest, which featured Unforgettable Characters (an Arctic explorer), animals (What Snakes Are Really Like), business derring-do (Dr. Geiger's Little Magic Box) and side-splitting Humor in Uniform. As for family life, the Saturday Evening Post observed it only through a flattering scrim, with its Norman Rockwell portraits of boys gone fishin' and short stories such as "The Skipper Was a Dame...