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While movies like Towering Inferno, Tidal Wave and Earthquake were mesmerizing audiences of disaster buffs over the past year, Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Associate Editor Frederic Golden, who writes our Science section, were carefully following a series of little-noticed events and discoveries that are leading scientists closer to achieving a critical breakthrough: the ability to predict, and possibly even control, earthquakes. Golden, who wrote this week's cover package and Jaroff, who edited it, have both been keeping tab on seismological research for several years. "We'd covered each advance piecemeal," Jaroff says. "Finally," he adds...
...Jaroff is a longtime student of natural disasters. With degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, he used his scientific training in one of his early assignments in journalism, covering Midwestern tornadoes-and trying to explain their cause-for LIFE. "I saw some terrible scenes," Jaroff says, "but at least people had a little warning and could duck into storm shelters. When an earthquake strikes, there is no place to hide." Golden drew on an expertise in geology that he began cultivating years ago as a student at the Bronx High School of Science. A denizen...
...longer." For the story, Stoler and Reporter-Researcher Jean Bergerud, a veteran of 22 years in the Medicine section, interviewed pioneer blood-pressure researcher Dr. John Laragh, our cover subject, and pored over such weighty medical tomes as Laragh's 900-page Hypertension Manual. Notes Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story: "Hypertension sounds like a disease of nervous, high-strung individuals. Many people are embarrassed to admit that they have it. We'd like to clear away some of the misconceptions...
Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, on the other hand, brought rigorous scientific standards to his judgments on the story, and an admitted predisposition to skepticism. "Belief in these matters," he feels, "is less a function of intelligence than of psychological need." Although he firmly believes that even such widespread phenomena as déjà vu and precognitive dreams will eventually yield to rational analysis, he cannot rationally explain why, three times in a row last week, his clock-radio failed to go off, making him late for work...
...back door - some would say front door - of magic and mentalism. There are many tricks with which one can duplicate paranormal phenomena." Indeed, Amateur Magician Kanfer astounded numerous TIME staffers last week by seeming to guess correctly, over the telephone, cards that had been pulled from a deck in Jaroff's office - which is one floor below Kanfer...