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...antimatter counterparts, positrons or antiprotons) are spurred to nearly the speed of light and tremendous energy levels by radio waves and steered on their circular course by magnets. The monumental girth of the new machines stems from limitations in the power of the guiding magnets; bigger circular tracks have gentler curves and thus require less intense magnetic fields to keep the particles on their required path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Colossus of Colliders | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...lessen the chances of clots after the five-hour implant operation, doctors gave Drummond low doses of heparin, an anticoagulant; they also lowered the air pressure that drives the mechanical heart to ensure a gentler blood flow and thus reduce the turbulence that damages red blood cells. Unfortunately, the strategy failed to work. But by week's end Drummond had a human heart and was in critical but stable condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Buying Time with an Artificial Pump | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...much left the film's creators on their merry own. But his candy-smirched fingerprints are evident on both projects. Like Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Goonies is all bustle and noise and adolescent ingenuity. Like E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future has a gentler pace and a heart as big as all suburbia. Both new pictures trumpet the familiar Spielberg moral: stranded in the wilderness of kiddom, American youth can fight its way out and help its parents survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: This Way to the Children's Crusade | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...Middle Ages and Renaissance, the original-instruments movement has now worked its way through the baroque to classicism and early romanticism in an effort to discover what the music of these eras sounded like to the people of the time. Bilson is a leading exponent of the fortepiano, the gentler forerunner of the modern piano; together with Conductor Gardiner, he makes a strong case for authenticity with a pair of gracious performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Things in Small Packages | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

Americans are usually gentler and more metaphorical than some other peoples in consigning their public figures to forgettery. Joseph Stalin slaughtered a generation or two of Soviet leadership. He dealt out the ultimate obscurity: death. It was part of his theory of management. Sometimes he invited prospective victims to his all-night dinners (about 10 p.m. to dawn) and later had the NKVD take them off to be shot. One ruler in Central Africa is said to have murdered hundreds of his people and sometimes eaten them for supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Poof! the Phenomenon of Public Vanishing | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

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