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It is impossible to describe the complete pleasure her smile conveyed. Perhaps she gets a bonus for being a particularly petty bureaucrat. Perhaps she resents foreigners and their privileges. A Chinese train's best accommodations, the "soft sleeper" compartment, in which two bunk beds actually sport linen, are reserved for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

The Microfridge, offered by Microfridge, Inc., is a three-piece appliance composed of a compact refrigerator, a separate freezer compartment and a mini-microwave. The product retails for $429.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Talented Gadget Hits Market | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

It took a unique combination of fate and circumstance last week to produce a near miracle of survival in the midst of a horrible tragedy. When a stricken United Airlines DC-10 failed by seconds to achieve a level emergency landing and plowed into the earth only yards short of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brace! Brace! Brace! | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

In Moscow, the Soviet military newspaper Red Star reported yesterday that the submarine was on its way home when a fire broke out in a compartment.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Sub Carried Two Nuclear Warheads | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

Through the fogged window of the Moscow-Tambov express, the early-morning sky seemed so gray and thick that the horizon blended imperceptibly into fields of snow. Children on their way to school dawdled by a railway crossing, the flaps of their fur hats sticking out like ungainly wings. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAMBOV: PERESTROIKA IN THE PROVINCES | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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