Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DARKSIDE. Stars twinkle all around, and the big blue marble of earth eerily arises in a set designer's triumph in this haunting new play about astronauts on the moon, at Denver Center Theater Company...
...have two kinds of correspondents here at TIME: those stationed in bureaus across the globe, and you, our readers, who are often illuminated, amused or just plain alarmed enough by a TIME story to write us. A case in point: our issue naming the endangered earth Planet of the Year. As of last week, the story has drawn 1,687 letters, the largest outpouring of mail for a Man of the Year issue since TIME selected the Ayatullah Khomeini...
...intelligent, forthright, sophisticated,and at the same time very down to earth," saidJames Cannon, who served with her in the FordAdministration. "Her success dramatizes what awoman can do if she has ability and courage...
...earth warming up or not? Many scientists say it is, thanks to the greenhouse effect, the heat-trapping property of gases that pollute the atmosphere. Some computer studies indicate that the warming could cause more frequent droughts and eventually produce a major climatic upheaval. Others say, not necessarily: increased cloudiness and other mitigating phenomena could counteract the warming before it has significant effect...
...first glance, the study would appear to be a serious blow to the greenhouse theory. Not so. The U.S. makes up only 1.5% of the earth's surface, and the country's temperature trends are not necessarily indicative of what is taking place on the planet as a whole. James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the most prominent proponents of the greenhouse theory, was not at all swayed by the new study. "Even in a warming world," he says, "you'd still expect on a statistical basis to see local variation...