Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...savings but for status. This inspires physicians to spend valuable time on self-promotion and merchandising, not skills that contribute materially to patient care. "My feeling was that if you're a decent physician giving decent service, that's really all you should have to do," says Florida ophthalmologist Robert Rogers, who has hired a business consultant to help manage his practice. "But patients don't seem to want that. They like the flashy stuff. They like to see your name in print. They like to see you lecturing...
...summer in the high Himalayas, but photographer Robert Nickelsberg borrowed a heavy-duty arctic snowsuit to cover this week's story on war on the Siachen Glacier between India and Pakistan. Just as well: he was stranded by a blizzard at a military camp 17,400 ft. up. Later, during an artillery exchange, Nickelsberg tried to dash to a better position only to discover that the thin air made it "nearly impossible to run." The rigors behind him, Nickelsberg sent back the first combat pictures seen in the West of this little-known conflict...
That kind of enterprise has brought TIME shooters a raft of awards this year, including top honors in photojournalism's three major competitions: the University of Missouri Magazine Photographer of the Year, the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal and the World Press Photo's Oskar Barnack Award...
...case in point is the Corcoran Gallery's sudden cancellation of an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs. The whole matter was needlessly confused when the director, Christina Owr-Chall, claimed she was canceling the show to protect it from censorship. She meant that there might be pressure to remove certain pictures -- the sadomasochistic ones or those verging on kiddie porn -- if the show had gone on. But she had in mind, as well, the hope of future grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, which is under criticism for the Mapplethorpe show and for another show that contained...
...before a House subcommittee, Bush recanted earlier sworn testimony in which he claimed that he barely knew the former HUD officials suspected of handing out federal housing contracts to well-connected Republicans. "I would guess it might be a while before he goes to Luxembourg," says Senate G.O.P. leader Robert Dole. "And then it might be just as a visitor." It may be that other Bush appointees will have to do their traveling as regular tourists...