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...unmarried"). Hume referred to the latter type of axioms as "self-evident" truths. By using the word "sacred," Jefferson had implied, intentionally or not, that the principle in question--the equality of men and their endowment by their creator with inalienable rights--was an assertion of religion. Franklin's edit turned it instead into an assertion of rationality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Declaring Independence: How They Chose These Words | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

These days Gelbart works in an office suite adjacent to his Beverly Hills house. To talk with him is to watch the writing process in action. He continually tosses out clever phrases only to edit himself aloud until he strikes upon even more clever phrases. He seems almost ageless with his ready laugh and animated, unlined face. As for his good health, he credits genetics--his dad lived to 90--but quips that his only diet and exercise regimen is "to keep working and try not to get too hungry or sedentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nonstop Laughs | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...didn't was Eileen O'Shaughnessy, a London University graduate student. Feisty and willing to share his austerely bohemian life, she married him in 1936. She also joined Orwell in his formative experience, the Spanish Civil War. He went to write articles about the Republican cause, she to help edit a workers' party newspaper. He soon joined the party's fighting unit and saw some action, though he couldn't bring himself to shoot a fascist soldier running from a latrine with his pants down. Standing one day in the trenches built for shorter Spaniards, he was shot through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orwell Up Close | 6/22/2003 | See Source »

...also watch a previously recorded show while another recording is in progress. The E60 includes slots for SD (secure digital) and PC cards as well as a digital-video port, so you can view images onscreen from a still or video camera, burn them onto a DVD and edit them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Not Just a Player | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...continued to work for three years after his first stroke. Since that time, Margaret Rawls and other colleagues have continued to compile and edit his partially competed works...

Author: By Ella A. Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Memoriam | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

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