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...have buried the Vietnam-era mentality, but we have resurrected its style: beehive hairdos are back, and Day-Glo minis, and beads. It is now possible to spend $60 on a necktie that displays the contents of a man's medicine chest or a collage of bus transfers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And While You Were Gone . . . | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...similar explosive device, wounding 25. The munitions turned out to be antipersonnel cluster bombs that had been dropped earlier by U.S. aircraft. But after the smoke had cleared and an unchallenged French line lay strung across a third of Iraq's width, Paris felt it had grounds for some chest thumping. Said General Gilbert Forray, the army Chief of Staff: "We can never emphasize enough the excellence of our men and materiel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Allies: A Partnership to Remember | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...expedition. The horny men came upon the mountain range and immediately decided that the peaks on the horizon resembled "Grand Tetons"--French for "big breasts." This leads to the unfortunate incidence of women buying souvenier T-shirts which read--you guessed it--"Grand Tetons" in large letters across the chest. So much for class...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Buffalo Galore | 3/5/1991 | See Source »

Police believe Prince was killed during a robbery attempt. He was pronounced dead at Yale-New Haven Hospital of a gunshot wound to the chest, police said...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Yale Student Slain Sunday | 2/19/1991 | See Source »

Perhaps the most remarkable devices are the computerized vans specially designed for disabled drivers. One owner is Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist Charles Krauthammer, who was paralyzed from the chest down in a diving accident 19 years ago. After logging 85,000 miles in one of these vans, Krauthammer just bought a customized $53,000 Dodge Caravan designed by Les Schofield of San Antonio's International Mobility Products. Krauthammer calls Schofield the "Chuck Yeager of rehab technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Machines That Work Miracles | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

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