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...intentioned but clueless souls endeavoring to turn their drab backyards into earthly Edens, the 3D Landscape CD-ROM could be as valuable as seeds or hoes. With this instructional software from Books That Work, budding green thumbs can design their own realistic gardens on an easy-to-use computer grid, dragging and dropping into place any of 800 plants and flowers. Advanced features let users take a 3-D tour of their creations or watch the virtual gardens blossom and fade as the seasons pass. One tip: Don't add water. (Books That Work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Apr. 29, 1996 | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...LINK FENCE AROUND the grassy field where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood is a monument to suffering great and small. Dozens of mourners congregate here each day, and like children at a wishing well, they cannot resist leaving tokens behind. Nudged into the 8-ft.-high grid are tin medallions of the Virgin Mary, polyester roses, a phone card with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge, an Afro pick, a flowered scarf, a globe key chain, poems and prayers on scraps of paper, crucifixes made from twigs and, in this Easter season, scores of green palm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA CITY: LIVING WITH THE NIGHTMARES | 4/15/1996 | See Source »

Ossorio argued that the best way to avoid the problem was to make sure all Health Net oncologists received the "grid" that set out specifically what the network would and would not cover. Most of the network's doctors were "pretty comfortable" with it, he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICAL CARE: THE SOUL OF AN HMO | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...tired of the grid lock and inability of the current parties. I'm looking for something new and different," added Kristopher Galletta...

Author: By James L. Chen, | Title: Students Gather to Urge Powell Run | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

Mondrian may have wanted to transcend nature, but the Dutch landscape was in him like a dna code. He said there were no straight lines in nature, so that straight lines--the grid--were inherently more abstract than curves; and yet, as anyone can see in Holland, the flat horizons and punctuating verticals of mill and steeple must have affected him right from the start. The momentum of his work begins with landscape--the delicate screens and friezes of trees above watery meadows, in their pearly gray light. The color explodes in 1908 with his Mill in Sunlight, an orgiastic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: PURIFYING NATURE | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

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