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...THAT WITNESSES REMEMBER IS A YOUNG MAN OF medium build with dark hair who wore a tan jacket -- and carried a semiautomatic rifle. He emerged from a brown compact car as commuters waited during an otherwise perfect, sunlit Monday-morning rush hour to turn left into the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Firing in bursts at close range, the man walked up the line of cars, then down, killing two CIA employees and wounding three others. In the chaos of shattered glass, screams and blood, he returned to his car and drove away. Was it a calculated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy Killer | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...made up of the same basic building blocks as ordinary, visible matter: protons, neutrons and electrons. One possibility is that dark matter is nothing more exotic than planet-like objects that are bigger than Jupiter but too small to shine like the sun. Such objects, known as MACHOs (massive compact halo objects), may be orbiting our own Milky Way like swarms of giant bees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dark Side of the Cosmos | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

Money spent in ways pleasing to taxpayers: on rent and compact discs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Word Watch: Jan 18, 1993 | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

...went to the Final Four), have also beaten Holy Cross (78-76) and Northwestern (64-61). To give you an idea of where Harvard stands in the thick of all this, the Crimson lost to Holy Cross, 92-72, in a game that was as one-sided as a compact disc...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Men Cagers Face Road Trip From Hell | 1/8/1993 | See Source »

...supposed to be better in the Baltics. No one doubted the difficulty of exchanging Soviet authoritarianism for market capitalism and democracy, but because of their European heritage and compact size, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were expected to make the transition with greater speed and less hardship. Many Balts welcome an abundance of consumer goods and the establishment of national airlines as signs of their success. Estonia has even abolished the dual economy that split society between the elite few with access to Western currencies and the masses who could shop only with rubles. But consider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia hoped the end of communism meant the beginning of a wonderful life | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

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