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...human race die out. This was the bottom-line argument against women's liberation in the 19th century. But in Cairo the priests and mullahs could hardly invoke biological necessity to silence the forces of feminism. It's not just that women's empowerment is "the new population control weapon," as the New York Times proclaims. Empowerment is also women's overdue reward for filling the planet with humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bright Side of Overpopulation | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

...pounds is the weight of sophomore Rich Lemon, the Bisons' star running back and key offensive weapon. Listed at 5'8" in the program, Lemon is well on his way to being the best running back in Bucknell history. He has rushed for 100 yards six games in a row, placing him fourth on the school's record list. Last weekend, he almost single-handedly destroyed Southern Connecticut, rushing for 171 yards on 22 carries in a 32-7 Bucknell...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Coach Murphy To Make Home Debut Today | 9/24/1994 | See Source »

...heavy, well before the Bomb. Four months earlier, Americans suffered 48,000 casualties taking Okinawa. And in March 1945, the incendiary- bomb raids had burned down much of Tokyo and killed at least 100,000, a toll approaching the combined carnage at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To have possessed a weapon that would end such a war almost instantly and not to have used it would have been inexplicable and, to those who would have died in the longer war, inexcusable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hiroshima and the Time Machine | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...rated films between 1990 and 1992, dated Cowlings and bills herself as his friend. Her conversations with the authorities may well have resembled interviews she gave recently to TIME and other news outlets. According to Peace, Cowlings told her that Simpson was guilty of both murders. The murder weapon "sleeps with the fishes," i.e., + was thrown in a body of water. Peace claims Cowlings told her that on the Friday before the murder, O.J. had been "stalking" Goldman, whom he "hated with a passion." But Cowlings also allegedly said that when O.J. arrived at Nicole's residence on Sunday, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Circus | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

Unlike bacteria and protozoans, viruses are tough to fight once an infection starts. Most things that will kill a virus will also harm its host cells; thus there are only a few antiviral drugs in existence. Medicine's great weapon against viruses has always been the preventive vaccine. Starting with smallpox in the late 1700s, diseases including rabies, polio, measles and influenza were all tamed by immunization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICINE: The Killers All Around | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

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