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...Inventor C. Francis Jenkins demonstrated his "long-distance cinema" by transmitting "still" pictures over radio waves from Washington to Philadelphia. U.S. Navy astronomer Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See denounced Albert Einstein as a fraud. Birth control was a subject of passionate debate, and in fact was forbidden under the U.S. penal code ("Every obscene, lewd or lascivious book . . . designed for preventing conception or producing abortion . . . is hereby declared to be non-mailable matter"). As this last item suggests, some attitudes do change. What has not changed in 70 years, however, is our determination to ensure that TIME still holds together...
Sorry. It won't work. But that doesn't mean that Buttermilk isn't fun and exciting. The black Timber Doodle Glade run will certainly quicken your pulse as you maneuver through trees and moguls, cursing the inventor of the ski lift. When you get tired, take a nice, easy green or blue run down to the bottom...
...Funds for Discovery program, endowed last spring by inventor and philanthropist John F. Taplin, will support 10 projects involving an issue of biological importance in human biology or medicine each year...
...should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there," said the inventor Charles Kettering. In our time, no symbol of the future has sparked more anticipation and mystery than the year 2000. And now the epic moment is close at hand. Lucky us: few people who ever walk the earth have had the opportunity to ring in, all at once, a new year, a new decade, a new century and a new millennium. The imminence of this extraordinary occasion inspired us to devote an entire special issue to the tantalizing...
...Waits has never been better. He is a true poet, musician and inventor. His latest Machine is a wonderful innovation...