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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three TIME photographers−Kaveh Golestan, David Burnett and Cathy Leroy−faced equal hazards. They managed to work themselves into the embattled U.S. embassy under heavy fire. Golestan, holding a burning piece of paper under his nose to ward off the effects of tear gas, also reported on the attack for the cover story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 26, 1979 | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Harvard Law School graduates who pledged last year to contribute at least 1 per cent of their future incomes to the Equal Justice Foundation (EJF) made their first payments last month...

Author: By Steven D. Irwin, | Title: Law Graduates Pay for Public Counsel | 2/23/1979 | See Source »

...where blisters form like a plague, "suicide sprints" aren't just a clever term. Former Boston Celtics coach Tommy Heinsohn used to call his Buzzards Bay training camp "Parris Island." Meanwhile, Rick Monday and Davey Lopes head down to "Dodgerland" in Vero Beach, Florida. The sentences seem far from equal...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Diamond Time is Nigh | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

...other. 2) Regardless of the motion of its source, light always moves through emp ty space at a constant speed (this seems to violate common sense, which suggests that light projected forward from a moving spacecraft, like a bullet fired from a plane, would travel at a speed equal to its velocity plus that of the craft). From these statements, using thought experiments and simple mathematics, Einstein made deductions that shook the central ideas of Newtonian physics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...flows steadily from the past toward the future, Einstein used the following thought experiment: an observer standing next to a railroad embankment sees two bolts of lightning strike the tracks at the same time and thus concludes that they occurred simultaneously, one far to the east, the other an equal distance to the west. Just as the bolts hit, a second observer passes directly 'in front of him on a train moving at high speed from east to west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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