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...Even a runt reactor can contaminate the nearby area if its radioactive core is fractured, in which case some radioactive particles could remain in the soil for decades. But the prospect that a radioactive cloud will spread across the region is universally discounted. "You would need a direct hit to splatter the stuff around," says Thomas B. Cochran of the New York City-based Natural Resources Defense Council. "And then it would be only a local hazard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A War Against the Earth | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...arguing over the meaning of a stuffed armadillo that has had its claws removed, or the significance of Wheelwright's carrying his small friend on his shoulders to slam-dunk a basketball. For graduate students there is the fact that Meany shares more than initials with Oskar Matzerath, the runt hero of Gunter Grass's masterpiece, The Tin Drum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Message Is the Message | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...addition to airing some touchy intra-racial conflicts, the movie has a good deal of nasty, misogynistic business. Besides the several exaggerated catfights there's an especially disturbing scene where Jane is forced to have sex with Half-Pint, the runt of the Gamma pledges (played unremarkably by Lee himself) as part of his initiation. All the audience has in the way of explanation for this type of slanted portrayal (Lee even stoops to the tired fat-women-are-funny gag) is the film's surreal epilogue contained in the last sequence...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Sophomore Slump | 2/26/1988 | See Source »

...taunted runt as a child in Bowling Green, Ohio. His growth had been stunted by Shwachman's syndrome, a disease that interferes with normal digestion. But Hamilton, at age eight, serendipitously found a therapy: ice skating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This One Figures To Be on Ice: Scott Hamilton | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...hard she labored to achieve an effect of lapidary simplicity and ease. The fledgling gigolo Chéri made his first appearance as a runny-nosed boy called Clouk. "When I gave birth to this beautiful young man," the author later recalled, "he was ugly, something of a runt, and sickly, suffering from swollen adenoids." He bored her. As a result, "Clouk awoke from a few months' sleep, cast off his pale little slough like a molting snake, emerged gleaming, devilish, unrecognizable." The creature that resulted from this metamorphosis was soon to make himself at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cornucopia | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

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