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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard- boiled private eyes and murderous miscreants, but the sort that unlocks the secrets of the natural world. As senior editor of a group of TIME sections that include Space, Medicine and Environment, Hoyle has lately been indulging his taste for the mysteries of the sky above and the earth below. This week's report on the possible damage that civilization is inflicting on the global weather system is the third cover story he has edited in three weeks. The others were on the Soviet space effort and the hotly debated new report by Researcher Shere Hite that indicates women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Oct. 19, 1987 | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

...wrote this week's report -- became intrigued by plans of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other agencies to investigate a disturbing hole in the ozone layer high above Antarctica. At the same time, scientists were growing increasingly alarmed about the ominous evidence of the warming of the earth's climate, caused by the so-called greenhouse effect. Says Hoyle: "When we heard about the NASA Antarctica expedition, we knew we had an awfully good peg for a look at changing weather patterns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Oct. 19, 1987 | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

curvature of the Earth: what the Radcliffe lights win their races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Primer: Head of the Charles from A to Z | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

...championship in Detroit and revolutionized that staff and others with his proliferating invention, the split-finger fastball. Late in a summer of 100 losses, the Giants summoned Craig from retirement in 1985. "I've known many kinds of fun," he remembered last week, "but nothing like this." When the earth moved, Craig instinctively reached for his Tiger ring. "They're not so easy to come by," he said. As his friend Anderson told him some weeks ago, "You guys are a cinch, but pray for us." Sparky must have known something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carved Down to A Play-Off | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

Even on its own terms, Daniel's list provokes challenges. How is it possible in evaluating the political turmoils of this century to omit the Chinese Communist revolution, which is not only the major event in the lives of one-third of the earth's inhabitants but also the first such revolution among the world's nonwhite peoples? And how is it possible to omit the Holocaust, which not only led to the state of Israel and thus to the modern Middle East, which not only changed every Jew's conception of his identity and his place in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What Really Mattered | 10/12/1987 | See Source »

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