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...monotony. In even the most sensational court cases, cross- examination draws out a story from witnesses in eyedropper doses. Expert testimony tends to be bloodless. The lacy bra admitted into evidence in Smith's trial seems less provocative when the garment is discussed by the "bodily fluids and tissue technician" of the Palm Beach sheriff's department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jurisprudence Trial by Television | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...first major black entertainer to have a regular network program -- but didn't do a whole lot for him in the jazz community, which had been buffeted by bop and the restless experimentation of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. Cole began to look like a silken technician who'd sold his soul. One of the best things about this Mosaic set is that it helps to correct that impression and shows Cole for the artist he was. He wasn't corrupted by the mainstream. He used jazz to enrich and renew it, and left behind a lasting legacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off on A Cashmere Cloud | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...coaches Piltch, Jack "Mr. Technician" Barnaby and Chris Brownell can guide the team through its inexperience woes, Princeton, Yale and everybody in between will take a back seat to the Crimson...

Author: By Becca Knowles, | Title: Racquetwomen Chosen Third in League Polls | 12/10/1991 | See Source »

This might have been the end of the line had not the younger N'donazi gone on to pursue a career in Western medicine. During his training in Africa, Europe and the U.S. as a health technician, he discovered that many Western medicines are derived from plants. Angered that a European missionary might dismiss traditions that he had never witnessed, N'donazi began to direct his energies toward revalidating the healing wisdom of Central African tribes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central African Republic | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

Bulmer's respect for the knowledge of the Kalam people had a profound effect on Majnep. After assisting Bulmer, Majnep went on to work as a technician at the University of Papua New Guinea. Bulmer is now dead, and Majnep has returned to his village, where he continues to record his people's observations of animals and plants. "If you stay in your village, it is easy to pick up this learning because it is still all around you," he says. "But when people go to Madang ((the nearest city)), they lose it very quickly." Throughout the country, though, Majnep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Papua New Guinea | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

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