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But the days of isolation mentality are numbered. Last week Britain ceased % to be an island for the first time since the end of the last Ice Age, when meltwater covered the land bridge joining the British Isles to the mainland. On Oct. 30 a team of workers at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe An Island No More Hello! Allo! | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

The femur and a collection of other bones back at the house were from baby duckbills. The shop owner took the two paleontologists to a ranch near Choteau where she had found the fragments, and during the next few weeks the scientists unearthed an entire nest 6 ft. in diameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACK HORNER; Head Man In the Boneyard | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

And the winner is . . . Mark A. Brest van Kempen, 28, a graduate student at the San Francisco Art Institute. His idea is to set down a granite ring, 6 ft. in diameter, with an earth-filled 6-in.-diameter hole in the center. An inscription will read, THIS SOIL AND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monuments: A Tower of Hot Air | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

Named for Edwin Hubble, the great astronomer who discovered in the 1920s that the universe is expanding, the space telescope has a mirror 2.4 meters (7.9 ft.) in diameter that will focus light on an array of cameras and instruments. After recording and analyzing the radiation, the instruments will translate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: New Window on the Universe | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

Grindlay says the telescope--four meters in diameter and 10 times stronger than the one Harvard now uses--would be used to map out the large scale structure of the universe, a project which would give scientists a "toe-hold on the whole field."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Astronomy Has But One Wish: A $20M Telescope | 3/22/1990 | See Source »

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