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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Richard Preston, best-selling author of The Hot Zone and The Cobra Event, is working on a book about microscopic life forms

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What New Things Are Going To Kill Me? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night

Author: By Dan Visel, | Title: Stereolab | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

Across at least six proper albums and numerous other releases, Stereolab has proven itself to be one of the major indie rock forces of the '90s. Originally written off as a left-leaning Neu! clone with lounge inclinations, the band has consistently managed to reinvent itself. Its latest, Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night, ranks with their best work, 1993's Transient Random-Noise Burst with Announcements. On this trip out, Chicago-based producers John McEntire and Jim O'Rourke provide Stereolab with a rich, layered sound, leaving behind the cold Cologne sound...

Author: By Dan Visel, | Title: Stereolab | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...brass and the Marine Band. But the program has had powerful critics from the start. The Bush Administration tried to kill it, saying its $79 million-a-copy price tag was too steep. The Army has refused to buy the Osprey, citing its cost. Pentagon officials acknowledge that the Cobra's crash--and Bell's role in it--could complicate the Marines' efforts to keep buying V-22s because of doubts it might raise about Bell. "If the Marines come down hard on Bell, the whole program could be called into question," says Lawrence Korb, who oversaw Pentagon logistics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crash and a Collusion? | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...test pilot, won the Distinguished Flying Cross for piloting a C-130 cargo plane through bad weather and enemy fire to resupply a beleaguered U.S. outpost in Vietnam. Both of Robert's grandfathers won that decoration in World War II. James Browne, whose son Michael, 33, perished in the Cobra's backseat, also believes the Marines' dependence on Bell has thwarted justice. "I am very disappointed in how the Marines have treated my family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crash and a Collusion? | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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