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One who has read Dr. Kenneth Cooper's books on aerobics would assume that everything about the subjects of running and conditioning has already been written at marathon length. One would be wrong. For those who have not been rendered glassy-eyed by The Complete Book of Running, fuzzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jotters' World | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

So with the O's 11 games up on the Yanks--the Red Sox seven--and a black tie dinner at The Ritz in October at stake with my roommates, I paid my quarter and boarded the Red Line bound for Kenmore Sq. As I switched to the trolley at...

Author: By Lorren R. Elkins, | Title: Confessions of a Yankee Fan | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

To duplicate that miracle, Staffieri made a small slit in the esophagus of a laryngectomy patient. Then he flapped part of the esophageal wall over the top of the trachea, forming a valve linking windpipe and pharynx. To speak, the patient simply placed a finger over the external breathing hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Speaking Again | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

He bent himself up, trying to get out of the undertow, but the blood from his arms and legs was huddled in refugee camps far from home. He couldn't get a purchase on the sleek tub edges, and he only slid further down. The tide came in--the wave...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Sorrow is Such Sweet Parting | 6/6/1979 | See Source »

He bent himself up, trying to get out of the undertow, but the blood from his arms and legs was huddled in refugee camps far from home. He couldn't get a purchase on the sleek tub edges, and he only slid further down. The tide came in--the wave...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Sorrow is Such Sweet Parting | 6/5/1979 | See Source »

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