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...left with only enough plutonium to fuel about two bombs after it agreed to freeze its nuclear-weapons program in 1994. The Pentagon saw no evidence that Pyongyang was preparing for an attack and did not order the 37,000 U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea to a higher alert level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: READY TO IMPLODE? | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...acre community. Even with law enforcement officials surrounding the trailer that he says serves as the "embassy" of the Republic, McLaren has managed to update a web site with news of his situation. On it, a red-lettered notice proclaims that the "embassy" has gone on "Red 1 Alert" because of presence of "forces currently arrayed against the Embassy." The site is maintained "with covert difficulties from a remote location," reportedly San Antonio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas Stand-Off Continues | 4/29/1997 | See Source »

University rules require instructors to alert the Ad Board at the slightest suspicion of academic dishonesty--a policy Metrick supports--but he says he suspects that many professors deal with students on a personal basis...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: CHEATING at Harvard | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...time of the end, apparently, was last week. A recently posted "Red Alert" announcement on the group's Website hailed the Hale-Bopp comet as the "marker" the members were waiting for. In this belief, at least, Heaven's Gate cultists were not alone. According to a popular theory circulating on the Internet, a spaceship is hidden behind the comet--whether inhabited by benign or evil aliens is unclear. Astronomers say the image behind the comet in some photographs is a mere star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MARKER WE'VE BEEN...WAITING FOR | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...always "Jews, homosexuals, and portly girls, whose faces were caked with acne medication." Of people who live in trailers, he remarks that, in general, they "peed in the sink and used metal buckets to barbeque tough purple steaks marked 'reduced for final sale.'" His sense of humor is alert and p.c.-heedless...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: not for the clothes-minded | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

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