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...entire bear population would stand the chance of being malnourished and less able to endure a hard winter. In their hatred of hunting, the animal rightists are endorsing a practice that would cause much more suffering and a lingering death for the animals they profess to care about. DUANE PORTERFIELD Bullhead City, Ariz...
Executive editor Christopher Porterfield has covered the arts for TIME for more than 30 years
...equivalent of a complete issue of TIME produced by a single writer. "I felt like a stable owner who had sunk all his money into one Thoroughbred," says assistant managing editor Christopher Porterfield, who oversaw the project. Happily for us, Hughes never pulled up lame. His insight and his vigorous prose perfectly frame the lavish illustrations, which range from a 17th century Puritan headstone to Jackson Pollock's energetic Abstract Expressionism...
Even the hyperproductive Hughes has his foibles. One of them, Porterfield says, is to keep pushing back the promised delivery time for his copy. "We cordially lied to each other throughout," says Porterfield. "Every deadline I threatened him with had, like a Chinese box, at least three false bottoms." The results, we're pleased to say, justified the subterfuge...
...Porterfield adds that however brilliant Ho's work, the researcher is really "an emblem of a key moment, picked to represent the best work of all the AIDS scientists." Ho, a virologist who directs the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City, did not make it easy for our staff; he was concerned throughout the project that his work be put in the context of all that is happening in the field. It was only when science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt laid out our comprehensive editorial plans that Ho realized what decision had been made. "Does that mean...