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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morning, some weeks later. Miss Quested has found her adventure, her brief and, as it will happen, terrifying glimpse of Indian reality. A young Muslim physician, Dr. Aziz, has mounted an excursion to the Marabar Caves, in the hills beyond Chandrapore, for the two English ladies. To transport them in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Superb Passage to India | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

So far it has yielded a rich trove of Bronze Age artifacts, some of which are now at a museum in Bodrum, Turkey: 6,000 lbs. of copper ingots (the "biscuits"), a store of tin (which was combined with copper to make the bronze that gives the era its name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bounty from the Oldest Shipwreck | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

The world is hardly in need of new alphabet books. The shelves of every children's library sag with them. But Bert Kitchen's Animal Alphabet (Dial; $11.95) should displace a score of bygone manuals. Each member of his wild kingdom is involved with the letter that begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Wonders For the Young | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

Well, the '60s are prehistory now, and nothing ages as fast as futurism. So it seems anachronistic for David Lynch, the gifted eccentric whose only previous features were the $20,000 Eraserhead and the $5 million The Elephant Man, to spend some $50 million (not another one!) bringing Herbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fantasy Film as Final Exam | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

The assailants in all cases are Great Whites, which can grow to more than 20 ft. long and weigh up to 3½ tons. Many biologists trace the sharks' increasing aggression to recent rulings like the U.S. Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972. That law makes it illegal to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Dangers of the Red Triangle | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

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