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Though routinely maligned as a decade of swinish greed, the 1980s also produced a kinder, gentler brand of storytelling, one that might be described as "eco-feminist" fiction. The central plot of this evolving subgenre has become reasonably clear. Women, relying on intuition and one another, mobilize to save the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Call of The Eco-Feminist | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

One consequence could be to establish the boundaries of quantum mechanics, which says particles can suddenly jump from one place to another without traversing the space in between. Penrose's intuition, although he has no proof, is that these effects may apply not just to atoms but also to objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ideas: Those Computers Are Dummies | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

Allison and his fellow curators have wisely refrained from predicting the future, focusing instead on the discoveries that have brought humanity to its present juncture. Perhaps, though, one of the many schoolchildren visiting the exhibit will look with fresh eyes at its displays and have the flash of intuition that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Dashed Hopes and Bogus Fears | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

Though statutes and court rulings may codify what is legal, they cannot ease the acute personal dilemmas of those who must deal directly with right-to-die situations. The issues that patients and families face are not only ethical but also medical, financial, legal and theological. In the last days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Love and Let Die | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

Stories of seemingly miraculous recoveries may grab the public's attention, but the real work is being done quietly and out of sight. In laboratories around the world, medical researchers are exploring the mind-body connection, separating myth from reality, intuition from fact, belief from science. Much of this work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Can The Mind Help Cure Disease? | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

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