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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enter the subterranean reservoir, as well as similar experiments at a South Dakota gold mine, a Utah silver mine and a Minnesota iron mine. Based on the number of protons in the cavity's water (more than 10³³), Physicists John Vander Velde of the University of Michigan, Frederick Reines of the University of California at Irvine, and their colleagues figure that there should be about 200 decay "events" per year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diamonds May Not Be Forever | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...qualified attorneys threatens to overwhelm Morris and others like her because the nation's death row population, now totaling some 570, is climbing by almost 100 people a year.* Eighty percent of the prisoners mark their time in the states of the Old Confederacy; Georgia has the largest number per capita in the country. While most welcome legal help, there are exceptions: in Georgia, convicted murderer Jack Potts, who says he is in severe phys ical pain, pleaded last week that lawyers drop his appeals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Queen of Death Row | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...doing on top of that mound of cotton-candy hair? And who is that in such an enormous wedding dress, balancing the cake, complete with bride and groom, on top of her head? Isn't the answer obvious by now? She is, as she announces in the opening number of her new Broadway show, "the big noise from Winnetka." She does not, in fact, come from Winnetka, but Bette Midler is the biggest noise-and one of the biggest talents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...their monarch at that very moment. Then, she notes, there is that noble equestrienne, Princess Anne. How would Anne answer if someone asked how old she was? Bette wonders. Without a word, she provides the answer: very slowly, like a trained horse at the circus, she taps out the number with her right foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...they have incorporated as Educational Research Analysts, a tax-exempt organization with a staff of six. Their detailed reviews of new textbooks under consideration by Texas schools, and Norma's motherly testimony before the State Textbook Committee have great impact in Texas, where schools have tossed out a number of new dictionaries that included terms like "slut," "queer" and "bed, verb transitive." Their objections to a number of health and government texts aroused elected officials on the Texas Board of Education, who last month dropped five of ten books that the Gablers had opposed. What Texas does affects textbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Was Robin Just a Hood? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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