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The proposed Techno-Superliner, 2 1/2 times as fast as any current container ship, would be propelled by water jets and powered by gas-turbine engines. Advocates of the liner (estimated cost: $79 million) hope it will revive Japan's flagging shipyards. Further in the future: a Techno-Superliner that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PACIFIC TRADE: A 60-m.p.h. Cargo Ship | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

Working with unusual urgency, experts at a British army ordnance laboratory in Kent took only days to determine the cause of the crash. From wreckage recovered near the devastated rural town of Lockerbie, they examined a ripped suitcase, fabric from some passenger seats and fragments from a metal bin in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diabolically Well-Planned: Pan Am's Flight 103 | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

I wonder if Michael Jackson is a fan of the poet Lord Byron, who used to use the skull of a dead friend as his drinking container. Byron also wanted the skull of the poet Percy Shelley after Shelley drowned, but couldn't get it. Come on Michael, I'm...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Is Michael Still a Thriller? | 4/14/1988 | See Source »

But look around and note the saturation points. American farming, which took so steep a tumble in the early 1980s, has recovered lately but only to a level where the surviving farmers look toward anxious stability, not flush times. Good news for American farmers and bad news factor each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Candidate with a Vision | 2/1/1988 | See Source »

The loading operation should have been routine: an enormous storage tank at Ashland Oil's Floreffe, Pa., facility was slowly filling with No. 2 diesel fuel, and everything seemed to be going according to plan. True, the 40-year- old container was being filled for the first time since having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Nightmare on The Monongahela | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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