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...since the dead sea Scrolls has anything found in a cave caused so much excitement. The paintings and engravings, more than 300 of them, amount to a sort of Ice Age Noah's ark-images of bison, mammoths and woolly rhinoceroses, of a panther, an owl, even a hyena. Done on the rock walls with plain earth pigments-red, black, ocher-they are of singular vitality and power, and despite their inscrutability to modern eyes, they will greatly enrich our picture of Cro-Magnon life and culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHOLD THE STONE AGE | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...especially House freshmen, warned in return that Clinton would have to jump to their tune. "I think the train is way down the track on welfare and that the president is jumping on the caboose. But I'm happy to have him on board," said Rep. Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark.), who will attend the high-level meeting of Congress members and governors.TIME Washington correspondent Ann Blackmansays Clinton staffers are promising no proposals from the meeting. Instead, she says, Clinton will probably point to the summit later to claim bipartisan support for the two sides' common goals: a work requirement, making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WELFARE REFORM . . . ALL ABOARD | 1/27/1995 | See Source »

...very sites designated for wildlife's preservation are becoming its abattoir, almost as if someone had let a serial killer into Noah's ark. Poachers haunt nearly half of America's 366 park areas, supplying animal parts to illegal traffickers who operate in at least 17 states. They supply bear paws as culinary delicacies and bear gallbladders as medicinal ingredients. Rare butterflies are netted for collectors around the world. Deer are decapitated to decorate homes. The illegal killing of animals is a $200 million-a-year business, with as much as $100 million of that amount for medicinal purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killing Fields | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

JAMES IRWIN "felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before" while walking on the moon. He subsequently founded an evangelical Christian organization whose activities included expeditions to Turkey to look for traces of Noah's Ark. He died of a heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neil Armstrong, You've Just Walked on the Moon -- What Are You Going to Do Now? | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

...made-for-TV movie (such as Duel, Steven Spielberg's debut feature). In 1974 he moved to Paramount, where he, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Frank Mancuso and some other sharp people spurred a renaissance of the studio, with such hits as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flashdance and Terms of Endearment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Barry and Larry Show | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

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