Word: jucius
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning he was to hurry back to the Time-Life Building and begin work on a fascinating and complex medical story. As sociate Editor Frederic Golden returned to his office and joined the other members of TIME'S medicine team: Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Reporter-Researchers Adrianne Jucius and F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt. Together they began to sift through the evidence and collect data for this week's cover story on the approaching birth of the world's first test-tube baby...
Jaroff's view is shared by Golden and by Reporter-Researcher Adrianne Jucius, who researched the story. Jucius first studied the intricacies of DNA as a graduate student at the University of Illinois, feeling the excitement of a scientist at work on the "fundamental substance of life" as she stirred a beakerful of solution, slowly accumulating a luminous glob of DNA strands on the end of her glass rod. "It was a very simple lab procedure," says Jucius, "but it was one of the most exhilarating moments in my life...
Overseeing the story was Senior Editor Otto Friedrich, assisted by Reporter-Researchers F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt, Peggy Berman and Adrianne Jucius...
Researchers Isabel Lenkiewicz and Adrianne Jucius compile all the information for the maps and charts. Lenkiewicz majored in cartography and geography in college but stresses that "there are no schools where you can really study journalistic cartography. It's much more important to be interested in a wide variety of subjects than to know how to draw a map." Jucius and Lenkiewicz also deal with telephone callers requesting special geographical information. One caller posed a question that no one minded answering: "Are you the guys who make complicated things simple...