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...interested in plants and evolution before college, when I was bumming around, hiking and reading," Donoghue says. "I read Darwin's Origin--that really influenced me. I'd take a walk in the woods, and there'd be so many things. I guess what interested me is, why this diversity? Why so many different kinds of plants...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Biology 20 Professor Discusses His Passion for Flora, Music | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

...long as Reno resists appointing an independent counsel, she may be doomed to second-guess her own decisions. Just last week her aides said they were reopening another aspect of the case Reno has already closed. Justice investigators want to probe whether "issue ads" prepared by the d.n.c. and the White House in 1995 were Clinton campaign ads in disguise. If so, such ads would violate campaign giving and spending rules. Reno rejected that idea in the past, but release of White House videotapes of fund-raising events--including footage of Clinton boasting about a legal end run--have prompted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY THE RENO-FREEH SPAT RUNS DEEP | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...President also sees U.S. machinations behind a report last year by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, commissioned in preparation for the handover, that listed more than 1,000 canal maintenance chores and equipment upgrades that needed quick attention. "The idea, I guess, would be to hand Panama a canal that would run into problems shortly afterward," says Perez Balladares. "Thank God, it was detected in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CANAL CRONIES | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...Online, AT&T and this magazine's parent, Time Warner--were trying to convey to the public and Congress. As a Santa's-helper questioner asked AOL chairman and CEO Steve Case during a panel discussion, "Steve, do you believe the private sector can deal effectively with these issues?" Guess what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY JOHNNY CAN'T SURF ONLINE | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Every so often, a writer catches lightning in a bottle. Williamson's magic moment came last December, when millions of shrieking teens watched Drew Barrymore try to guess the original killer in Friday the 13th and, ahem, choose incorrectly. Cannily crammed with the likes of Neve, Courteney and Skeet (if these names seem meaningless, you're just in an obsolete demographic) and directed with twisted bravura by the incomparable Wes Craven, Scream became the highest grossing horror movie ever, reviving the moribund slasher genre and lifting its author into Hollywood's screenwriting elite. When the Williamson-scripted I Know What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BARD OF GEN-Y | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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