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...much later in the flight, so the incriminating debris would be lost farther out in the Atlantic. The device could have malfunctioned and exploded early. That gives investigators a lucky break. With the crash occurring in 120-ft. water, "there will be a lot of stuff we can collect," says a U.S. intelligence official. "We'll find out what went on here. And if it was a bomb, we'll find out who made...
There are some matters we can all agree on: motherhood and apple pie--good; deadbeat dads--bad. That's why, in this time of fbi files and Little Rock, Arkansas, trials, the President decided last week to announce some new measures to collect child support, which include screening new employees who may owe money and penalizing welfare mothers who refuse to identify the fathers of their children...
...damp like most of my clothes at school turn out. When there's a kitchen in the room, trash is also a high maintenance activity, not just a weekly afterthought. Our tiny dish-washer needs to be run a few times a day. Dust and other strange substances collect on every surface in the place. And if something breaks, you cannot call your mother or your superintendent...
...sentimental highlight of the track-and-field program may be the men's long jump. If Carl Lewis makes the team and Cuba's formidable Ivan Pedroso isn't recovered from a recent operation, the grand old man of American track can collect his fourth straight long-jump gold medal, which would tie him with Al Oerter, who had four straight in the discus...
...capsules as mementos for their children. But few took so seriously the idea of TIME as the first draft of history as did the late U.S. Army Colonel Robert Carter, who wanted his draft signed. This week Sotheby's will auction off 1,925 autographed TIME covers that Carter collected until he died in 1975. Through pleading letters, well-placed intermediaries and sheer doggedness, Carter tracked down artists, astronauts, athletes and war criminals--everyone from Jimmy Hoffa to Winston Churchill. "After his retirement, he started collecting very aggressively," says Elizabeth Muller of Sotheby's books and manuscripts department...