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Except for shows like Jackie Gleason and Mickey Mouse Club, my parents wouldn't let me watch TV. Part of the reason is that, when I was four or five years old, when I did see things on TV I got scared. I remember crying for hours after I saw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

What is more, the restless tectonic plates spawn volcanic eruptions, which spew carbon dioxide into the air. The increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide results in a greenhouse effect, which traps the sun's energy, causing temperatures on land and in the sea to rise markedly. Conversely, crustal movement may allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Did Comets Kill the Dinosaurs? | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

The road to Boot Key Marina reflects an earlier, but no more graceful, state of Marathon's history. In a moldering trailer park a resident sits listlessly on top of a motorcycle, airing her black eye. Towers of lobster traps fill a fish yard. A dilapidated fish market offers the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: End of an Era | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

Wearing an exterminator's white coveralls and grasping a bug-spray canister and two yellow flyswatters, Conte announced on the steps of the Capitol that Shulton, Inc., a "roach-busting" company from his congressional district, was donating 35,000 roach traps to combat the problem. Conte, a 26-year veteran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wildlife: Debugging the Capitol | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Women, of course, did not always want to be faced with the new choices which Sanger's activities created. And Forster says that winning the vote produced complaceney. The feminist movement then needed an ideology to propel it Forster credits Emma Goldman, a Lithuanian immigrant to the United States who...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Female Fighters | 3/7/1985 | See Source »

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