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...fish along their way to sea. That could also lead to a one-third jump in regional utility rates and trigger another battle like the one over the spotted owl, pitting environmentalists against those concerned about the economy. "Salmon are at the center of the Northwest culture," insists Robert Irvin, an attorney for the National Wildlife Federation. True enough. But so is cheap electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECOLOGY: Spawning a Controversy | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...dove in her hair from an antiwar rally stood near two fortyish men talking softly about a bungled mortar attack a generation and half a world away. Two helicopters whirred overhead, the sound both jarring and fitting. Odd how certain names leaped to the eye and touched the heart. Irvin W. Prosser Jr., Zygmunt Kowalewski, Sherl K. Bonnett. Strangers all, so there were no images of them as soldiers or as high school classmates. Instead the vision came of proud fathers, perhaps survivors of World War II combat, holding up their squawking boy babies and announcing to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Dove Faces Up to War | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

Some, like Princeton's Nell Irvin Painter, say they fear that Gates will be hampered by a University administration unwilling to fully sipport Afro-Am at Harvard...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Can He Save Afro-Am? | 1/31/1991 | See Source »

Directed by Irvin Kershner...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii., | Title: Robocop Return Offers Action, Social and Political Messages | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

Feld inherited the business and his know-how from his father, the late Irvin Feld, a flamboyant promoter who bought the faltering circus from John Ringling North for $8 million in 1967. At the time, the acts and the performers were aging. The show had only a dozen clowns, some in their 70s and 80s. The senior Feld threw out the freak shows, hired new acts, stepped up the pace of the show and started the world's first clown college. Determined to get the best performers, he bought an entire West German circus for $2 million in 1968 just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenneth Feld: Lord of The Rings | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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