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...actors superb, the writers the wittiest bunch ever called into service in TV land, and each episode is more brilliantly structured than the last. I think there should be no question about this show's ability to crush every upstart and retread for five seasons running. Survival of the fittest, I'd say. HOLLIS ASHBY Pacifica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1998 | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

Although Wilmut received his doctorate from Darwin College at Cambridge, his contributions to cloning may give a whole new meaning to Darwin's famous phrase, "the survival of the fittest...

Author: By Elisheva A. Lambert, | Title: Seeing Double--Researcher Makes Clone of Sheep | 2/25/1997 | See Source »

Microsoft is definitely a well-armed player, but it is using unfair tactics. With the offer of free software and Web navi gators, Gates is trying to dismember Netscape and run it off the field. Of course, survival of the fittest always applies. Microsoft should relax and give other struggling companies a fair chance in this Net software battle. WARREN M. GRENNAN Pleasantville, New York Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 7, 1996 | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

Describing the rush at certain key hours to get on one of the scarce cardiovascular machines, Wentzell said, "It comes to be a survival of the fittest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Join Gym, MAC Quality Cited | 10/2/1996 | See Source »

...started happening about three years ago, when I turned 39 and was first preparing to establish a beachhead in my 40s. By any measure, 39 is a tough age to be. It's the age at which even the fittest ballplayer is described as a "grizzled veteran." It's the age at which a former rock 'n' roller embarking on a comeback tour will be referred to respectfully as "the patriarch of pop." It's the age at which you first realize that no matter how successful you become in your career, you are chronologically disqualified from ever again being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALL OF THE MILD | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

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