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They proclaim the sun's highest and lowest point in the midday sky, on about June 22 and Dec. 22, (the summer and winter solstices), and signal the advent of a new season. Modern calendars ensure that there are no mistakes. But how did the pre-Columbian peoples foretell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Graffiti with a Heavenly Message | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

To identify as many pieces of the Mexican puzzle as possible for this week's cover story, Willwerth ranged from Tijuana and Monterrey to a hillside in the elegant Bosques district of Mexico City, which affords a view of outgoing President José López Portillo's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 20, 1982 | 12/20/1982 | See Source »

Thanks to Gary, a communications major from Penn State, Rob, 23, now lies in his bedroom in Hopewell Township, Pa., at the heart of one of the most sophisticated computer control and communications centers in the U.S. It is a remarkable patchwork of off-the-shelf electronics parts, including a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Power to the Disabled | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

It was enough to make the people of Wethersfield, Conn., look skyward and ask the heavens: Why pick on us? For the second time in eleven years, a local family experienced a shock from space: a meteorite crashing through the roof. This time a 6-lb. extraterrestrial chunk, plummeting about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Dropout Drops In | 11/22/1982 | See Source »

YOU DON'T HAVE TO SCRATCH very hard at the wrinkled brown skin of the summer's most adored cultural hero to find the skeleton of an old superstar. Even the advertising campaign for "E. T." hints coyly at a Significant Parallel for sharp-eyed moviegoers to discern: that now...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: J.C., Phone Home | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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