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Just to make things even more complicated, it now seems that some of the variations in El Nino cycles come from outside, imposed by other components of the world's intricately interconnected climate system. "We've been treating El Nino as a purely tropical problem, but what if it isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fury Of El Nino | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

Joycelyn Elders, the pediatrician nominated to be Surgeon General, was the first in her sharecropper family of eight children to go to college, working her way through Philander Smith, a black institution in Arkansas, as a cleaning woman. When she was home one weekend, her younger brother Chester, now a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prognosis: Controversy | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

If, in nature's design, romantic love is not eternal, neither is it exclusive. Less than 5% of mammals form rigorously faithful pairs. From the earliest days, contends Fisher, the human pattern has been "monogamy with clandestine adultery." Occasional flings upped the chances that new combinations of genes would be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right Chemistry | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

The Gary Hart follies of the 1987-88 campaign left the issue unresolved. But the particulars of that episode established a standard few future candidate sex scandals could hope to match: the misbehavior was current. The perpetrator was virtually caught with his pants down. He had specifically invited scrutiny of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Lives: How Relevant? | 1/27/1992 | See Source »

For all the leering sex jokes on ABC, consummation is intriguingly scarce. Characters who want to have sex rarely do; double-entendre punch lines often trail off into pregnant pauses; Suzanne Somers, the blonde bombshell comedienne of Three's Company, never does fall out of her many scanty outfits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Tuesday Night on the Tube | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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