Word: kluger
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...joined fellow Apollo 11 astronauts Edwin A. "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins Tuesday to receive the Langley Gold Medal for aviation from Al Gore. And as the space shuttle Columbia sits idle on the launchpad, its mission scrubbed until Friday because of persistent glitches, TIME space correspondent Jeffrey Kluger is reminded how far mighty NASA has fallen since JFK fired our imaginations with his promise. "Three decades later, one of the great disappointments of the moon landing was that there was no real institutional follow-up," he says. "We did it to beat the Russians, and when...
...Portable state-of-the-art medical equipment, sophisticated planes and modern computer links have made this medical mission possible," says TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger, "but it is only the intrepidness of the jet crew and the woman that will make it work." The woman, in particular, faces huge challenges. If a biopsy is called for, says Kluger, "she may have to do things herself that would make anyone skittish." These could include inserting a needle into her own breast tissue, staining the cells and interpreting the results. "These are things that would be hard enough to go through...
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...reduce bad cholesterol (LDL) and least reduce good cholesterol; conversely, stick margarine least reduces bad cholesterol and most reduces good cholesterol. Butter ends up somewhere in the middle. If the results sound confusing, it's because they are. "Margarine apparently has some benefits," says TIME senior science writer Jeffrey Kluger, "but not as much as we once believed...
...Animals go where the climate takes them,? says TIME senior science writer Jeffrey Kluger. ?What the butterflies are telling us is that we have been in denial for some time: Global warming is not just coming, it is upon us.? Scientists have calculated that Europe is now slightly warmer than it was 100 years ago and they predict that it will continue to get warmer, and at a faster rate, during the next century because of the greenhouse effect of pollution. ?Evidently some species are already taking steps to adapt to what we have wrought,? says Kluger. Which raises...