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...role of the press is also being questioned. Fairness was sacrificed to the need to match the competition. If a publication holds back a story while a competitor prints it, says Washington Post National Editor William Grieder, "all you are going to do is leave egg all over your face. If we'd had a firm notice that this was our call alone, I'd have pondered the question more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Troubling Ethics of Abscam | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...active female mounts a passive one, curves the tail under the other's body, strokes the partner's back and neck, joins genital regions, and rides on top for one to five minutes. The active female lizard always has small undeveloped eggs, while the passive female has large pre-ovulatory eggs. But there are cyclic variations in behavior and egg size in these reptiles, and roles reverse; the passive female of one encounter can be the active partner of the next. Says Crews: "We are now trying to determine whether this malelike behavior facilitates reproductive function." Translation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Leapin' Lizards! | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

This new outlet of religion is controlled almost totally by the Evangelical-Fundamentalist-Pentecostal wing of Protestantism. It is a chicken-or-egg question whether broadcasters foster the Evangelical tide or vice versa, but they now own more than 1,400 radio stations and 35 TV stations. Four religious "networks" feed programs via satellite to stations and to thousands of cable-TV hookups. The network organizers dream of the day they can offer a total "family-centered" and "wholesome" alternative to commercial TV, complete with "Christian" soap operas and newscasts. Their talk shows already draw on a gospel celebrity circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stars of the Cathode Church | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...directed by Drs. Howard Jones Jr. and Georgeanna Seegar Jones, a well-known husband-and-wife obstetrical and gynecological team, as part of the fertility program at Eastern Virginia Medical School. They will use a variation of the technique developed by British Scientists Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards. An egg will be removed, through a small incision in the abdomen, from the ovary of a woman whose fallopian tubes are either hopelessly blocked or too damaged to permit natural fertilization. Then it will be placed in a laboratory dish with the husband's sperm. (Unmarried women are not eligible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Baby Jones | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

Despite the robin's egg in the win column, women's ice hockey at Harvard is bound to look up as the young squad gains experience and as individual talent coagulates...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Get Out Your Bluebooks | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

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