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...traveling companion and I found ourselves parked at the side of the road, approximately 93 miles south of Sverdlovsk-45, sharing a picnic lunch with a Russian scientist and two former military officers. Ignoring the freezing wind, we ate brown bread heaped with butter and red caviar. We drank tea from a thermos that had given up its heat hours ago, and stamped our feet in the snow as we discussed the import of a meeting held two hours earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Trade: Arms Trade | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...cult of followers who regard her as St. Sylvia, the high priestess of suffering. On Feb. 11, 1963, she put her head in a gas oven in her London apartment as her two children, for whom she had left glasses of milk and a plate of bread and butter, slept in a nearby bedroom. Plath's husband Ted Hughes, a great poet who is now England's poet laureate, had left her months earlier for another woman. Before her death, few had ever heard of the 30-year-old American expatriate. But with the posthumous publication of Ariel, the bleak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Poets in Suicide Sex Shocker! | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...sure what "BROIL" is for. Maybe for drying out wet shoes. Certainly not for food preparation. If you do commit this culinary faux pas, however, use a butter knife to whittle away the black, carbonized surfaces of burned food. Brush off the black dust, and apply mustard liberally to disguise the ashy taste...

Author: By R. I. Wilson, | Title: Everything is better With Ketchup | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

...tight reins on the "keys" used to translate coded text into plain text, prohibiting the export of secret codes under U.S. munitions laws and ensuring that the encryption scheme used by business -- the so-called Digital Encryption Standard -- was weak enough that NSA supercomputers could cut through it like butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Should Keep the Keys? | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Harvard is supplying a pat of butter. The rest of the world must supply the guns...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Feeding the Bleeding | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

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