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...match several seasons ago, Tom Watson urged Gary Player to turn over a new leaf rather than pat down the one growing behind his ball. Through that incident, a line seems to have been drawn: idealism on one side, opportunism on the other. Watson writes hard-and-fast books about rules (and innocently runs afoul of them still). Player considers himself more of an interpreter, like George Archer. Once, when his ball came to rest at the base of a tree, Archer summoned a referee and requested relief under the burrowing- animals statute. "What burrowing animals?" the official demanded. Archer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Par Cut Off at the Knees | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...imposes a minimum 30-day jail sentence for a first offense of carrying a concealed firearm without a permit. Young, who has beefed up Detroit's police force over the past 18 months and helped organize community action against crime, described the ordinance as "little more than a fig leaf covering . . . a very complex and very serious problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kid Killers: A plague of teen murder | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...North Korean leader's lifetime accomplishments, including his World War II service in the Soviet army. After another six hours the announcer began hinting -- opaquely, to say the least -- that Kim's career was finally at an end: "Our leader Kim Il Sung flows in the river as a leaf." A statement announcing his death by shooting followed shortly. Monday's broadcasts eulogized Kim extensively. Then, on Tuesday, came the startling admonition, "Do not be deceived by groundless rumors that our leader Kim Il Sung is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea Now You See Kim ... | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...could also be sexually voluptuous, something Weston claimed was unintended, did not hurt.) What he had hit upon, of course, was how high definition and distortions of scale could make objects more uncanny even as it made them more palpable. For all its optical truthfulness, Weston's 1931 Cabbage Leaf is as dreamlike as an apple by Magritte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Peppers From Heaven | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...luciferase gene was spliced to the regulatory switch of a gene belonging to a virus that infects plants. The altered two- part piece of DNA was then inserted into a circular strand of DNA, called a plasmid, from the bacterium Agrobacterium. The bacterial plasmid was incubated with tobacco-leaf cells, and the cells were nurtured into full-fledged plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Of Fireflies and Tobacco Plants | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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