Word: specialize
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Under pressure to find out what went wrong, Du Page County appointed a special prosecutor, William Kunkle, who had made his name putting serial killer John Wayne Gacy on death row. Kunkle concluded that the vision statement was fabricated and that Cruz had been framed. He filed charges against three former Du Page prosecutors (two of them later became a sitting judge and an assistant U.S. Attorney) and four sheriff's deputies. The defendants all insist they are innocent, and the Nicarico family has rallied to their defense. The trial, likely to last more than a month, may be tough...
Preparing a special issue of TIME like the one you're holding takes careful planning. The biggest problem, says PHILIP ELMER-DEWITT, the assistant managing editor who supervised the project, is the issue's sheer size. "I realized straight off that if I had to edit 92 pages all at once, I'd burst," he says. So he, deputy chief of reporters ANDREA DORFMAN, and TIME's science staff began working on it nearly a year ago; by last fall their list of the greatest minds of the century had been boiled down to a few dozen names. In November...
Deciding who got those assignments took some creative thought. Elmer-DeWitt was determined to find writers who brought a special expertise to their subject and could also produce graceful prose. NEIL POSTMAN for example, who wrote on TV pioneer Philo Farnsworth, is the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death, an acclaimed study of the impact of television on society. RICHARD RHODES, who profiled nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, wrote a Pulitzer-prizewinning tome on the making of the atom bomb. Paleoanthropologist DONALD JOHANSON, who discovered the fossil called Lucy, had a long and bumpy relationship with the Leakey family and used...
Welcome to the fourth of our TIME 100 special issues profiling the hundred most influential people of the century. We began a year ago by picking 20 leaders and revolutionaries, followed by artists and entertainers, then business titans. Now comes our convocation of the greatest minds: this century's 20 most influential scientists, thinkers and inventors...
...TIME 100 series has become a true multimedia project. A CBS News special hosted by Morley Safer will air this Thursday, March 25, at 10 p.m. E.T. A panel with some of our experts was moderated by Charlie Rose for his PBS television show, which airs Monday, March 22. We have a place on our website www.time.com where you can express your own opinions. CBS Radio has been broadcasting short profiles on each selection. A book series is available (800-692-1133), and we are hoping to produce a coffee-table volume for Christmas. And Madame Tussaud's wax museum...