Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover story about stress and its effects on health proved to be an illuminating inquiry into all too familiar territory. As Detroit Correspondent Barbara Dolan put it, "While attending stress seminars and workshops, I kept thinking, 'They're talking about me.' " San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson was late to an interview when the car in front of him skidded out of control, and his body braced for the expected crash. Happily it did not occur, and the Salk Institute biochemists he was meeting were soon telling him exactly how his neurotransmitters and other internal defenses had geared...
...Thompson deals with the stresses of normal life by beginning the day strapped into Wallis and his rowing machine. Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin relies on "a long, long, long walk. Daily." For the Washington Bureau's Renie Schapiro, reducing stress means a jog through Rock Creek Park or a swim. "For backup," she says, "there is always my foot massager and my Pachelbel record...
...them. Between the fight-or-flight spasms of too much tension and the dullness and dormancy of too little, the challenge for each person is to find the level of manageable stress that invigorates life instead of ravaging it. -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Ruth Mehrtens Galvin/Boston and Dick Thompson/ San Francisco
...Anaheim, Calif., some 110,000 people paid up to $125 each to examine the wares of 650 firms at the National Computer Conference. At the same time in Dallas, nearly 2,500 delegates attended the United Auto Workers meeting that elected a new union president. TIME Correspondent Dick Thompson was in Anaheim, and Correspondent Barbara Dolan was in Dallas. Their reports...
...this week's cover stories on Return of the Jedi, the third installment of the Star Wars saga, San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson crossed the Golden Gate Bridge to San Rafael to explore the mysteries of the film's wondrous special effects in, of all places, a common cinder-block warehouse. There, and at a similar illusion factory in Van Nuys, Calif., Han Solo's Millennium Falcon spaceship first blasted into hyperspace, and E.T., C-3PO, R2-D2 and Jedi's furry Ewoks were born. Says Thompson, who has reported stories for TIME on subjects ranging...