Word: planeteers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THEIR QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE, SCIENTISTS WILL take advantage of anything that's helpful, even a nuclear blast. Studies of the shock waves given off by a Chinese .66-megaton nuclear test have revealed a "continent" 2,000 miles underground, at the boundary between the molten iron of the planet's core and the molten rock just above it. The word continent is used loosely; what two scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey found was a region 200 miles across and 80 miles deep that is denser than surrounding regions. The implication: the core-mantle boundary may be as complex...
That ought to be enough for any managing editor of TIME, but it is not what Muller is proudest of. It is his selection of the Endangered Earth as the Planet of the Year in 1988, a daring play on TIME's traditional Man of the Year choice. Says he: "We took a story that was all around us but that no one had treated in the depth it deserved. And we produced a list of solutions that stand up very well today...
...generalize," Star writes, "about a group that is said to be politically disengaged and politically correct...technologically savvy and unconditionally ignorant, busy saving the planet and craving electricity and noise, prematurely careerist and proud to be lazy, unwilling to grow up and grown up already...
Sayles would like to show you a woman's mind and heart. This American independent (Return of the Secaucus 7, The Brother from Another Planet) gives his movies the leisurely tempo, the sensible aspirations of foreign films; he means to get at the way real people behave, without the hysterics of Hollywood melodrama. So Passion Fish -- a female-rehab movie about May-Alice (Mary McDonnell), an actress made paraplegic in a car crash, and her helpful nurse, Chantelle (the ever splendid Alfre Woodard) -- is notable for what it doesn't show: the collision, the sight of May-Alice's mangled...
...founders saw themselves in the light ofposterity. We can do no less. Anyone who has everwatched a child's eyes wander into sleep knowswhat posterity is. Posterity is the world tocome--the world for whom we hold our ideals, fromwhom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom webear sacred responsibility...