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It was those very sounds, of course, that made stars of Simon and his best friend from Forest Hills, Queens, Art Garfunkel. Under the "nom de 45" Tom & Jerry, the boys had a minor hit single in 1957, then followed the folk-music trail into the new decade. Oft-told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAUL SIMON: Songs of A Thinking Man | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

The environmentalists did not win every battle. By pleading financial hardship, steelmakers got until the year 2020 to eliminate cancer-causing emissions from their coke ovens, as long as they take interim steps to reduce that pollution. Electric utilities in the Great Lakes region -- many of them affected by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecast: Clearer Skies | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

Yet chairman Smith's radical cost cutting, which removed 137,000 workers from the payroll, and his $50 billion investment in retooling will eventually pay off for the company. More important, his huge reorganization of the company in the mid-1980s is finally creating some cooperation between GM's far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right Stuff: Does U.S. Industry Have It? | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

Downtown San Francisco has been largely repaired, but some luxury hotels and many restaurants report that the tourist business has not yet fully recovered. "The fear factor is gone," proclaims Tapan Munroe, chief economist for Pacific Gas & Electric. Not everyone agrees. In the past year more than 7,000 aftershocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging Out, Looking Back | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

Adaptive optics depends on taking starlight focused by a telescope's main mirrors and bouncing it off yet another mirror before studying the image. The additional mirror is made of a superflexible material -- plastic, in the Johns Hopkins device. A light sensor monitors a reference star within the telescope's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Who Needs the Hubble? | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

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