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...baby, her tiny chest convulsed at the slightest irritation. Instead of laughing, she would cough; instead of crying, gag. She succumbed to an endless string of , respiratory infections -- pneumonia, a cold, bronchitis, pneumonia again -- that ordinary antibiotics seemed powerless to curb. Diagnosed with a "failure to thrive," Brianna weighed less at one year than she did at six months. Finally, last August, just after the child's third birthday, her anxious parents took her to the University of Washington pulmonary clinic in Seattle. Chest X rays revealed that a thick, bluish mucus had started to accumulate in her airways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laying Siege to A Deadly Gene | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

After New York City, Tharp's troupe will tour in Japan. Then comes a movie musical with James Brooks (Terms of Endearment). What next for the choreographer and her flock? Well, in addition to constant maintenance, there is also that element of uncertainty. Tharp seems to thrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twyla Tharp's Sexy New Twirls | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

...They thrive...

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

...quality of play is improving, and more and more people play every year," says Kutin. "The club is sure to thrive because it is a place where beginners can get better and others can learn from each other...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: More than Just a Card Game | 11/2/1991 | See Source »

Suddenly the audience slips into the world of gibberish in which Joycean characters--and O'Neill it seems--thrive, a world of swiftly tilting pitch and agrammatical word structures too bizarre to be termed sentences. It is a testament to O'Neill's virtuosity that the audience watches him make unintelligible sounds yet is still intuitively mesmerized...

Author: By Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, | Title: Joyicity Makes the Nonsensical Accessible | 10/31/1991 | See Source »

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