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...TUCSON, Arizona: A ten-mile circle on a snowy Colorado mountain is now the target of the search for Air Force Captain Craig Button and his runaway plane. Working with FAA radar tracks and several eyewitness accounts, the Colorado Civil Air Patrol has placed Button's A-10, an $8.8 million plane loaded with four 500-pound bombs, on New York mountain, about 20 miles southwest of Vail. The mystery of why Button left the Arizona-bound flight path of his three-plane team has raised speculation that he might have purposely broken away. There have been several incidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking For Capt. Button | 4/8/1997 | See Source »

...1970s Montana sociologist Robert Balch infiltrated the group and traveled with them through California and Arizona for two months. During the 1970s, the cult suffered from a dramatic attrition rate, until Applewhite instituted what Balch describes as an "intense regimentation." Do had recruits follow detailed schedules--waking for prayer at precise times, taking vitamins at, say, 7:22 p.m., consuming yeast rolls and liquid protein--and had them do drills, mental and physical, to prepare the flock for outer space. According to a man named Michael, who was with the cult from 1975 to 1988, recruits experimented with their sleeping...

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

Highly qualified, gifted people (typical Ivy League students) will excel in their careers no matter what college they attend. Parents are suckers to believe otherwise. They certainly are not giving their children enough credit. KEN WAGNER Sierra Vista, Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 7, 1997 | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...Williamson resigned Wednesday, Mexican agricultural officials went into damage-control mode, arguing that the berries were probably contaminated during processing and shipping. The only reported illnesses so far have occurred in Michigan, where 151 students and a teacher became sick after eating the fruit last week. Schools in California, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa and Tennessee, also received the bad strawberries. Health officials in Los Angeles said up to 9,000 students and teachers who recently ate the berries would be offered protective gamma globulin shots, a treatment that is usually effective up to two weeks after exposure. The outbreak came during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poison Fruit | 4/2/1997 | See Source »

...Benetton would embrace the colors of this plate. But after Arizona issued it in 1992, it was redesigned for clarity. The peaks paled to lilac, and the lettering was darkened. Plate sales remain brisk, raising in all more than $2 million for environmental education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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