Word: kluger
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...probably deposited after the rock was formed, and not left behind by heating and cooling. Also present in the samples are magnetite and iron sulfide, which on Earth are associated with bacterial action. "As the number of solar systems and planets we've discovered increases," says TIME's Jeffrey Kluger, "it becomes less and less likely that we are alone in the universe. The major import of this discovery could be the realization that life doesn't have to be an outrageously unlikely assemblage of improbable elements. Perhaps, given light, water and a few rudimentary hydrocarbons life could begin relatively...
While plainly outraged by the conduct of the cigarette makers, Kluger spreads the blame around. Lawmakers, cozy with tobacco interests, are held responsible for the government's failure to regulate a clearly dangerous product. The antismoking lobby, in its zeal to get its message across, is portrayed as stooping to hasty or manipulative presentation of scientific data. Meanwhile, the American Medical Association comes across as shockingly slow to denounce smoking. To end the present standoff, in which tobacco companies are battling huge lawsuits, Kluger proposes a compromise in which the industry submits to fda regulation of cigarettes in return...
...Kluger tells tobacco's story very effectively. As one scientist scolded a group of researchers bought and paid for by the tobacco industry more than 20 years ago: "It shocks me that ...you have not joined the community of men." Until the tobacco industry joins that community, Kluger suggests, the greatest preventable scourge of public health in the modern era will continue unabated...
...time erodes his physical powers and numbers the days of his pontificate, John Paul seeks strength from the friends of his youth. Several times a year, he dines with Jerzy Kluger, a Jewish classmate from Wadowice who is a businessman in Rome. Swapping stories and memories, Kluger calls the Pope by his youthful nickname, Lolek. John Paul likes to spend his vacations hiking with the Rev. Father Tadeusz Styczen (pronounced Stee-chen), the Polish philosopher who succeeded to Wojtyla's chair at the University of Lublin and plays a key role in the shaping of his encyclicals. Styczen, 62, continues...
...average gap between earned income and the cost of making music has risen from $5 per listener in 1971 to $26.17. Further, government support, after rising in the '70s and early '80s, has trailed off, falling more than 4% in the past seven years. "Everybody is hurting," says Joseph Kluger, president of the Philadelphia Orchestra, whose subscriber base has fallen the past two years...