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...reporting opposing viewpoints that are equally idealistic and heartfelt. Says Los Angeles Correspondent Diane Coutu: "Perhaps more than any other story, this one reminded me that the most difficult moral choices are seldom ones between good and evil, but almost always between good and the lesser good." Joyce Leviton interviewed pro-choice activists in Atlanta and experienced one of the many ironies in the abortion fight: during a call to the vice president of the Georgia Abortion Rights Action League, she found herself listening to the cooing of the pro-abortion leader's nine-month-old daughter. Making...
...midweek she set off for Plains, Ga., to where the President's brother had also headed. She almost caught him. "Alas," McGeary reports, "he ate breakfast at his regular table at the Best Western motel in nearby Americus, but the sight of a familiar TIME photographer, Jay Leviton, had alerted Billy to the press hunt. He zoomed out of the motel and hasn't been seen here since." McGeary staked out Billy's gas station in Plains and his house 20 miles out of town, where she found a pickup truck parked across the driveway to block...
...Joyce Leviton of TIME'S Atlanta bureau interviewed a physiotherapist who can tell from a person's posture whether he or she has a back problem. "He looked at the way I sit in a chair and deduced, correctly, that I have had bouts of backache," she says. New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, who first injured his back in a mountain climbing accident a decade ago, interviewed numerous doctors, researchers and fellow sufferers. "There is more awareness of the problem today," says Stoler. "Fewer people are enduring in silence any more. More people are aware...
...Babies," which was edited by Senior Editor Ruth Brine and researched by Mimi Knox and Gail Perlick, Associate Editor Peter Stoler relied on a thick stack of reports from TIME'S bureaus. Correspondents talked to couples with two, one or no offspring. For contrasting views, Atlanta Stringer Joyce Leviton tried to find a family with eight children. One mother she spoke to had only five. "I told her that was insufficient," says Leviton. Replied the mother: "That's the first time I've ever been told I didn't have enough children...
...homes, young people have no opportunity to experience it firsthand. "The only deaths they are exposed to are in TV dramas, or those in Viet Nam or Bangladesh-never those of average Americans," says Fulton. Another reason for student interest, according to University of Maryland Health Education Professor Daniel Leviton, "is the chance to ventilate their fears about death...