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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foster deliberately selected an unendangered Grant's zebra (pop. more than 300,000) for his initial experiment. With the newborn's safe arrival last week, however, the scientists will attempt to repeat the experiment with embryos of such rare types of zebras as Grevy's (pop. 15...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horse of a Different Stripe | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

Almost too bold and imaginative, Hang On to Me offers hints of the wonderful things Sellars may yet do, but does not do in this ungainly production. Although his cast of 26 is skillful and professional, he has wildly miscast some roles. Several of his players are too old for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Gorky and Bess | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

THIS EMPHASIS on huge-and, increasingly, unreasonably expensive--power plants, whether nuclear or coal-fired, relegates other sources of power, such as conservation and the use of renewable resources, to the back burner. Under the DOE plan, conservation measures get last priority. Meanwhile, however, an experiment going on now at...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel, | Title: Costly Losers | 5/23/1984 | See Source »

It was to have been a chance to prove that after 16 years of military rule, Panamanians were ready to elect their next President. But scarcely 26 hours after the polls had closed, the electoral experiment began to slide into the kind of political violence and chaos that torments the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama: Uneasy Victory | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

While wary of the Soviets, who have 52 divisions on their northern border, the Chinese made it clear that they wanted a neutral role with the superpowers. (The Soviet news agency TASS was apparently unconvinced; it rapped the Chinese for condoning Reagan's "militarist course.") Reagan did his best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Opening to the Middle Kingdom | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

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