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...TIME senior science editor Phil Elmer-DeWitt wonders about that - "I?d like to see them replicate this in a lab. I give a lot more credence to the brain cancer theory," he says - but that?s almost beside the point. Has a cigarette-style war over America?s favorite new toy finally begun? "There is no evidence whatsoever that a wireless phone has ever caused ignition or explosion at a gas station anywhere in the world," scoffed Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, in a written statement. But to DeWitt, that might as well have come...
...incidents that might spark a national panic in the U.S. are unlikely to alter Japan?s pattern of energy use. "The U.S. nuclear industry basically self-destructed under political and economic pressure because it couldn?t run plants safely enough to satisfy the public," says TIME science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "But Japan is unlikely to change course because they?re economically dependent on nuclear power. Generally they?ve made it work for them, but nuclear fuel is dangerous and the price of using it is that there will be accidents every now and again." But a government that plans...
This political Elmer Gantry has been loose in the Iowa cornfields for weeks, making his speech after Forbes finishes his on flat tax and fortitude. Grubbs, an Iowan, is an example of the modern Iowa, which has become big-part yuppie, little-part farmers and small towners. But for all its struggle to be like California and Connecticut, most of Iowa's area remains farmland, and the crops underlie the economy. The biggest political pretenders must at some time or another take off their suit coats and go to the land where strange things can happen...
Additionally, four former Harvard students are recipients of this year's award: David F. Elmer '98, a classics concentrator; Andreas J. Liu '96, a philosophy concentrator; Emily D. Michelson '95, a history and literature concentrator; and Edith A. Replogle '96, a history and literature concentrator...
...75th-anniversary party last year, BILL GATES said his career was particularly influenced by the Wright brothers--so he was chosen to write about them. And though TIME senior writer PAUL GRAY is no computer expert, he was picked to tell the tragic tale of Alan Turing. Says Elmer-DeWitt: "I needed someone who could break the readers' hearts...