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WRITING HIS NATURAL HISTORY IN THE FIRST CENTURY A.D., Pliny the Elder reported that when water rises into the atmosphere to form rain clouds, it sucks up with it shoals of fish and sometimes quantities of stones. Fish and stones hover above us in the sky. Elsewhere, Pliny offered an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS THERE LIFE IN OUTER SPACE? | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

"I think this system is robbing physicians of their essential goodness," says Dr. Roy B. Jones, a University of Colorado bone-marrow-transplant specialist who saw Christy deMeurers during her journey. "I think physicians are slanting the opinions they give based upon monetary considerations that in many cases they wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICAL CARE: THE SOUL OF AN HMO | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

Which is smaller, a mouse or an elephant? What color is the sky? What does a car look like?

Author: By Nelson C. Hsu, | Title: Existence of 'Mental Picturing' Confirmed | 12/6/1995 | See Source »

Hoping to keep his party from being pegged as Earth bashers, Newt Gingrich, who once interrupted a day of foreign-aid budget cutting in the House to ask his fellow Republicans to restore money to protect the African elephant, has established a Republican Task Force on the Environment, manned by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIS LAND IS WHOSE LAND? | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

Most buyers, however, were happy. John Woodward and Karen Hall so admired the huge wooden sculpture that used to sit on the lawn of the museum that they bought it for $1,400. "You can't find such a monumental sculpture for that price," Woodward said. Now, however, the couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSEUMS: WHITE ELEPHANT PARADE | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

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