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...speak with hospice pioneer Cicely Saunders and to Cambridge, England, to explore the cosmos with physicist Stephen Hawking. "Since the magazine's founding, one of TIME's great strengths has been to give readers a very strong and multidimensional look at people," says executive editor Ronald Kriss. "Our aim is not just to chronicle what they say and do but to convey their strengths, their weaknesses, their idiosyncrasies...
...surprise and skepticism of many, Hall resigned from the National as of last September to launch a commercial venture. Its aim: to revive classic and modern plays, particularly little-known or lightly regarded ones, in direct competition with the subsidized theaters. This month he unveiled his first production in London's West End, and the ranks of doubters deservedly diminished...
...contrast, China has galvanized its people behind a huge population- plannin g effort. Still, its program demonstrates just how difficult -- and risky -- social tinkering can be. The nation launched its "one-family, one- child" policy in 1979. The aim: to contain population at 1.2 billion by the year 2000. In pursuit of that goal, local authorities have offered such incentives as a monthly stipend until the sole child turns 14 and better housing. Penalties for violating the policy have included dismissal from government jobs and fines of up to a year's wages for urban workers. China's effort...
...also, in excelsis, a show about connoisseurship, not block- busting. It was scrupulously and intelligently put together by Keith Christiansen, curator of the museum's department of European paintings. His aim, as far as possible, was to concentrate on narrative painting -- stories from the Bible, mainly -- instead of the static images of the Madonna in which Sienese painting abounds. Because these narratives are usually found in the small scenes around compound altarpieces, they have been scattered from Budapest to Melbourne in what museums euphemistically call the "dispersal" -- the dismemberment by thieves and dealers -- of big church paintings...
Despite that setback, Mitchell still travels to Scandinavia as often as he can to do field research, the aim of which is to analyze folklore theory and the history of that genre in Northern Europe, he says. "My life is split in two halves, but there is a synergism between them," says Mitchell, who just received tenure from Harvard after eight years of teaching here...