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A 13-hour FDA hearing on Ru-486, the "abortion pill," had the controversy dullified right out of it, despite some questionable queries and shady studies upon which the recommendation was based. A Los Angeles Times reporter commented somewhere around hour eight that she was "mired in the depths of...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Loving the Lethargy of Summer | 7/26/1996 | See Source »

Of course, if ever you get bored of the special effects and Fox turning around in surprise and wiping his nose, there's always a mildly offensive stereotypical character (one of Bannister's ghost friends) or a gross, gratuitous blood-bath thinly hidden by quick camera cutting.

Author: By Nicholas R. Rapold, | Title: Latest Fox Flick Is Abominable | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

By all accounts, life was sweet under Snefru's rule. Egypt in the 3rd millennium B.C. was a land of peace and plenty. The nobles feasted on fattened ducks and geese and wore white linen robes--when they wore much at all. One papyrus recounts how a bored King Snefru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: THE SECRETS OF SNEFRU | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

A quarrel over the children in 1992 finally broke the marriage. Charles had scheduled his family to join him for a shooting party at Sandringham. Bored with country weekends and disapproving of the slaughter of animals, Diana backed out, proposing that she and the boys go to Windsor to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HERE COMES WILLS | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

Partly this is because Tyler is virtually the only young person around; everyone else is tired or bored or dying. But also because she truly is at ease with herself and the camera. Her allure can seem a come-on, but she's not a flaunter; she doesn't shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: ONE LIFE TO LIV--BUT CAN SHE ACT? | 6/17/1996 | See Source »

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