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...blood test to detect prostate cancer in its very earliest stages works far better than old-fashioned, unpleasant rectal examinations. In a recent study the newer method, called a prostate-specific antigen test, detected almost twice as many tumors as a manual exam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Sep. 6, 1993 | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

...Already about 400 other frogs (many of them English ones, heavily reinforced with Japanese and Americans) are in the queue; the earliest ones, real frogs from France, had been here since 7. Dress: sneakers, blousons, & rucksacks, jeans. A suit or two. We are a long way from the days when a minister, arriving at Buckingham Palace in trousers rather than knee breeches, was asked why he had joined the retinue of the American ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buckingham Palace: 18 Rms, No Royal Vu | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...someone with a broader perspective . . . to sort things out for him, to ask the right questions of the specialists." Still, no one knew for sure what caused Lewis to faint on that fateful April day. Not even the results of the autopsy, which are expected this week at the earliest, can be guaranteed to provide the answer. Whatever was wrong, says Diaco, Lewis was clearly sicker than anyone thought: "This could have happened to him sleeping in bed or driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Reggie Lewis Have to Die? | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...guided walking tour of the waterfront highlighting Boston's earliest Black community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fireworks, Festivities Highlight Weekend | 7/2/1993 | See Source »

Reich has long heard music in the inflections of the human voice; indeed, his earliest works, such as the tape-looped Come Out (1967), were constructed entirely of speech fragments. The Cave -- the title refers to the cave of Machpelah where Abraham and his family are supposedly buried -- is Come Out come out. Projected on five huge video screens, the interviews -- all in answer to the question, Who is Abraham? -- are treated both as the opera's text and as its musical raw material, from which Reich draws every element of his score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words Sliced And Diced | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

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