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...Einsteiniana presented an opportunity to fill a major gap in his education. Golden delved into the growing body of writing on relativity and consulted nearly a dozen leading experts. He also interviewed several of Einstein's former associates and his longtime secretary, Helen Dukas. For Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Reporter-Researcher F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt, working on this week's story was also a brain-stretching experience. "General relativity blows your mind," reports Jaroff. "What we set out to do was to give mil lions of intelligent readers a glimmering of what relativity is, and what it was that...
...astronomy. On this Monday morning he was to hurry back to the Time-Life Building and begin work on a fascinating and complex medical story. As sociate Editor Frederic Golden returned to his office and joined the other members of TIME'S medicine team: Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Reporter-Researchers Adrianne Jucius and F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt. Together they began to sift through the evidence and collect data for this week's cover story on the approaching birth of the world's first test-tube baby...
...Computers are already in our homes and offices. They help us figure our income taxes and play games with us," says Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who directed the project. "The computer age has arrived." Indeed, computers are now as much a part of TIME as typewriters. Jaroff, who holds degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics from the University of Michigan, edited the stories on a video display terminal, part of our elaborate copy processing system. In 1967, TIME was one of the first magazines to set copy with a computer. Today our improved system also handles the other Time...
...story was written by Peter Stoler, with assistance from F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt, and edited by Leon Jaroff. David Wood, our Nairobi bureau chief, spent two weeks interviewing Leakey and his colleagues in such varied settings as the anthropologist's camp in northern Kenya, the noisy cabin of the four-seat Cessna that Leakey uses to get there, and the fossil storage room in the basement of Nairobi's International Louis Leakey Memorial Institute. "As in anthropology," Wood notes, "interpreting the mass of data that filled my notebooks proved more difficult than collecting...
...first, most people seem to be fascinated by sociobiology, but at the same time they hate it," says Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited this story. "They feel diminished by the theory. They'd like to think that most of their behavior is determined by intellect, whereas the sociobiologists are saying that it's a result of evolution...