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Thompson is an important figure in part because what he does is unique. While most glaciologists focus on polar regions, he has targeted the long-neglected ice fields of the tropics. "Lonnie went against the grain," says influential paleoclimatologist Wallace Broecker of Columbia University, and in so doing, Thompson has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climatology: The Iceman | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

To Stewart, a judge is supposed to decide only the specific case before him and to do so as narrowly as possible. A Justice, he said last week, should not "think of himself as some great big philosopher-king." He believes that social and economic issues should be left to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Surprise from the Swing Man | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

THE supporting argument Bennett dredges out is one of the responsiveness of the market: GM must be doing a pretty good job, otherwise people wouldn't buy so many of their cars. What Bennett forgets is that there aren't a whole lot of alternatives. When a company shells out...

Author: By Scorr W. Jacobs, | Title: The Endowment What's Good for GM | 3/17/1970 | See Source »

Now at 62, beyond promise, beyond middle-age slump, beyond fashion, the clever schoolboy deserves to be read for what he is: an endlessly experimenting, self-revising poet whose true voice is to try all voices, an honestly fluctuating responder to a fluctuating age. City Without Walls, containing poems of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Who Am I Now? | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

In Los Angeles' glittering, stadiumlike Biltmore Hotel Bowl, 1,400 big and little cinewigs reverently listened to President Roosevelt (see p. 13), exuberantly hurrahed for Responder Bette Davis. They alcoholically splurged for a couple of hours as the lesser Academy Awards were doled out, pulled themselves together at last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 10, 1941 | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

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