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The computer at the University of Illinois is simulating something that no one saw: the evolution of the universe in the aftermath of the Big Bang. Re- creating conditions that may have prevailed billions of years ago, the computer reveals on a remote screen how massive clouds of subatomic particles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Fast and Smart | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

Much of Superman's complex evolution derived from his reincarnations in different media. On radio, for example, which could not show the red-caped hero in full flight, an imaginative scriptwriter dreamed up the deathless lines: "Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Up, Up and Awaaay!!! | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Lear is a manic-depressive and reports she is on lithium to control the condition. But she does not blame her disorder for the magazine's stormy evolution. "In the beginning, there was a lack of experience on my part," she concedes. "It was difficult for me to make important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Guru for Women over 40: Frances Lear | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Perhaps some day in the distant future the Olympics and the U.S. presidential elections will, through the forces of convergent evolution, have merged into a single entity, with aspirants after the nation's highest office judged on the best Las Vegas-type dance act.

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: That Four-Year Itch | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

The minute America's best-known jurist bangs his gavel, onlookers in the nation's most famous courtroom attentively come to order. Not the U.S. Supreme Court, silly -- The People's Court, with 11 million viewers daily, featuring Judge Joseph Wapner and his 30-minute brand of homespun jurisprudence. Now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Gavel on The Go | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

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