Life Magazine, September 1, 1990 - How We Came To America

Great two page color photo of a boneshaker bicycle race in England, these are the vintage bicycles with the big front wheel. The first photos of how life begins, by Lennart Nilsson. Really unusual photo of three matadors (bull fighters) being helped from the ring by guards with riot shields, one of the matadors had refused to kill a bull and the spectators were furious. Gruesome two page photo of earthquake victim in Rasht, Iran. Creating the world's most accurate clock, atomic clock, includes Jim Gray, National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, Bernard Guinot, Thomas Heindorff, Robert E. Drulinger. The testing of Dory Yochum, a woman on the corporate ladder. Feature on actor Brian Dennehy, who played an alien in Cocoon. Taking kidnapped orangutan babies back home, Birute Galdikas Bohap and Diane Taylor-Snow. A great article about clowns visiting sick children in hospitals, includes Carmelo, clown Michael Christensen, Mimi Melendez, clown Todd Robbins, Isha Vargas, clown Therese Schorn, Jackie Vittini, clown Danny Lord, clown Elizabeth Bolick, Miriam Padovani, clown Laura Fernandex, Samantha Lundeen and others. Feature on roses. Neat photo of wheat field physically moved to the Champs Elysees in Paris, farmer protest.