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...president and co-founder Robin Steele, Ambergene scientists have identified filamentous fungi similar to those that have produced a distinguished line of antibiotics. They have also brewed batches of ale with ancient yeast. Beer buff Cano was named official taster of the new brew, dubbed Jurassic Amber Ale (a slight misnomer since the yeast used to make it did not come from the Jurassic period, which ended 144 million years ago, but from more recent geological epochs.) Quipped Steele to Cano: "We're not going to drink this. We'll let you drink it and see if you survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD? | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

...third installment, "Die Hard With a Vengeance," reunites Bruce Willis with John McTiernan (director of the original "Die Hard"). Like "Return of the Jedi," the new movie is a slight let-down in a from the first two. But a slight let-down in a third movie is a great success in a world that has produced "Beverly Hills Cop III." This latest "Die Hard" movie cements its place at the top of the action movie pyramid...

Author: By Benjamin Cavell, | Title: `DIE HARD' LIVES AGAIN | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

...course, the crowing feature of all sitcoms is that everything is resolved within a wild and wacky 30 minutes. This phenonmenon ensures that no American will be burdened by even the slightest worry, if some slight emotional concern did happen to develop during the course of an episode. Next week, in most cases, they start all over again. If it weren't for the factors' aging sitcoms wold have complete inertia. Not that aging makes too much of a difference--the characters don't lose any vacuousness as they mauture physically...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Touring The Idiot Box | 5/26/1995 | See Source »

Women and minorities made slight gains in the class of '99, both up from record numbers last year...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: 75 Percent of Admits Will Attend Harvard | 5/19/1995 | See Source »

Perhaps the only consolation of the strike was that it gave the Royals a head start on replacing their artificial surface with real grass. One of the great ironies of our time-all right, a slight exaggeration-is that the 66-year-old Toma, a groundkeeper so renowned he has his own autographed rake, presided over a carpet all these years. "I count this as one of the greatest days of my life," he said before the game. Indeed it was Toma, arriving in a pink Cadillac and dressed in white tails, who threw out the first ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GROUNDS FOR OPTIMISM | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

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