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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked. By ninth grade, I was no longer broken-heartedly inspecting the color of the onion dip. I still made the occasional punch bowl run, but could now return to a respectable number of partners. But I still didn't like the wild new system. I resented its disorganization, its unpredictability and its unfairness...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Let's Return To Third Grade | 2/14/1996 | See Source »

Sarandon said that she felt that she had gained from her difficult experiences, citing ordeals such as bad romances and a brief institutionalization. "As Hemingway said, 'You're strong in all the broken places,'" she quoted...

Author: By Nicole Columbus, | Title: Sarandon Named 'Woman of The Year' | 2/13/1996 | See Source »

PARIS: Breaking from Vatican doctrine, the French Bishops Conference has broken with Rome, giving its reluctant approval of the use of condoms to prevent the spread of the HIV virus. In a 235-page report titled "AIDS: Society in Question," the bishops conceded that condoms may be a weapon of last resort against the spread of the fatal disease. TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton notes that the bishops were careful to stress teachings on the importance of monogamy within marriage and abstinence before. Of the French Catholics, Sancton notes: "They haven't been as rebellious as the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Bishops Challenge Vatican | 2/13/1996 | See Source »

...races to reach his home turf in the Southern primaries on March 12. He parcels out his money dime by dime, flying around in rattletrap planes, wearing a beige wool coat he bought from a street vendor in Washington in 1979 and until recently sporting shabby shoes and a broken watch. Aides joke that they've thought the Senator would make one of them share a room with him if the local Super 8 gave him a room with double beds. "There are really two wars going on out here," he says in a plane over South Carolina, eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: IS FORBES FOR REAL? | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

Seven years after ground was broken in 1985 to build a prototype incinerator on Johnston Atoll, 750 miles from Hawaii, Congress put the program on hold because of cost and safety concerns. It resumed the incineration program 18 months later, when the independent National Research Council concluded that to pause and explore alternative disposal methods was too risky because the weapons--rockets, artillery shells, bombs and land mines--are deteriorating. There have been some 2,100 reported incidents of leakage inside the igloos. Last summer at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama, 60 workers were evacuated and one was hospitalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHEMICAL TIME BOMBS | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

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