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When the showdown began, Buffalo had studied Wichita and was prepared. A federal judge issued an injunction two months ago that threatened antiabortion protesters with $10,000-a-day fines for coming within 15 ft. of a clinic door. Police and sheriff's deputies in the past month were given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buffalo Operation Fizzle | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

The scorecard for the crazies is not very impressive. "Police psychics" have been investigated scientifically and found to be of absolutely no use; in fact, they impede investigations. Yet they flourish, are consulted by law officers and promoted lavishly in the press. Spoons vigorously stroked all the way to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Stamp Out Absurd Beliefs | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Those Washington spoon-bending parties are regularly attended by top brass from the Pentagon. The German government paid DM 400,000 (about $250,000) in 1990 to hire dowsers to scan federal offices and hospitals so that desks and beds could be relocated out of the path of the deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Stamp Out Absurd Beliefs | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

The nation-state is also exploding upward, into larger units, notably the European Community. It has not eradicated national rivalries, or xenophobia, or protectionism, or the danger of international trade wars. But the historic fact is that Western Europe has learned the momentous lesson: that war and conquest no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year 2000 | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

TWELFTH NIGHT. Gender bending is at the center of the Bard's richest comedy, so director Neil Bartlett takes the idea to a wry extreme at Chicago's Goodman Theater, casting a man as the cross-dressing woman and women in most of the parts meant for men.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Jan. 13, 1992 | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

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