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...Guinea by tribes from across the country's rugged highlands and by tom-tom drums pounding out the joyful news of his arrival. Few of John Paul's foreign journeys have offered such a kaleidoscope of contrasts as the ten-day, 24,000-mile trek across the outer rim of Asia and the South Pacific that he completed at week's end. In South Korea, he assumed the role of pastor; in Thailand, he served as a diplomat; to the islands of the Pacific, he came primarily as a missionary...
...times change, and so has TIME. Up-to-the-minute, tonally accurate, four-color* news photos depict remote jungle battlefields and earthquake epicenters, political campaigns in city streets and satellite repairs in outer space. Until now, however, no newsmagazine has been able to employ four-color illustration throughout its news pages. It was often necessary to give up color photography in one section in order to gain it in another, or to confine articles that needed color to limited sections of the magazine...
Among other phenomena, it will examine quasars, black holes, supernovae and galaxies yet unexplored "from the moons of Jupiter to the outer stretches of the universe," Tananbaum said...
Every eleven years the sun's outer layers erupt in a blaze of turbulent magnetic storms, characterized by an increase in sunspots and fiery explosions known as solar flares. In February 1980, on the eve of one such outburst, NASA launched an instrument-packed scientific satellite called the Solar Maximum Mission. Nicknamed Solar Max, the spacecraft was to photograph and monitor the sun's activity, which even at a distance of 93 million miles can disrupt global communications and power transmissions, influence weather and endanger space voyagers...
Cholesterol has been perplexing researchers since 1769, when French Chemist Poulletier de la Salle first purified the soapy-looking yellow-white substance. Despite its bad reputation, cholesterol is essential to life: it is a building block of the outer membrane of cells, and it is a principal ingredient in the digestive juice bile, in the fatty sheath that insulates nerves, and in sex hormones such as estrogen and androgen. Although most of the cholesterol found in the body is produced in the liver, 20% to 30% generally comes from the food...