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...ingenious portrayal of superconductivity, one of the most promising new scientific frontiers. The Meissner effect picture by TIME's Bill Pierce, which appeared in our Aug. 10, 1987, issue, won the prestigious Budapest Award, given for best illustrating "positive and innovative action concerned with the preservation of our endangered planet," at last month's 31st World Press Photo competition in Amsterdam...
HOME FIRES (Showtime). Most TV family dramas are so slick and reassuring that this bruisingly realistic portrait of a middle-class clan in distress looked as if it had come from another planet. From the lack of attention it received, it might have...
...that the world's conflicts are caused by misunderstandings and mistaken perceptions. If we sit down and talk, we can clear things up. Like most noble conceits, there is some truth to it. Summitry serves to lower the world's blood pressure. The two most powerful leaders on the planet smile at each other; somehow it seems that the rumbling forces of history, filled with clashing values and national interests, might thus be tamed. And like most conceits, there is some danger: neither the President nor the public should be lulled into thinking that a personal rapport between leaders...
...asteroids Gaspra and Ida, the first such close encounter in the annals of interplanetary travel. Then, five months before reaching Jupiter near the end of 1995, Galileo is to release a 730-lb. probe that will become the first man-made object to penetrate the gaseous atmosphere of the planet. Its instruments are expected to transmit data on the Jovian atmosphere for about 75 minutes before being silenced by the planet's intense atmospheric pressure. Galileo is next scheduled to settle into a two-year-long orbit of Jupiter that will enable it to make detailed studies of the planet...
...sounds. Momma as played by Anne Ramsey gives new meaning to the word overbearing. She orders Owen around mercilessly, calling him a "clumsy poop" and a "lard-ass". Ramsey's performance is so eccentric and so funny that it is almost shocking. She seems to have arrived from another planet, one inhabited by creatures that are not exactly human...