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Only a decade ago, for example, the West was seized with a near mass hysteria about imminent nuclear apocalypse. The airwaves, the bookstores, the Congress were filled with dire warnings about our headlong dash to the abyss. Indeed, those who refused to lose their heads were said to suffer from a psychological disorder. "Psychic numbing," it was called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware The Study Of Turtles | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

...York's Westchester County. But his tactics are, shall we say, more direct. On one show he wielded a baseball bat and delivered a prophecy: "We're going to be beating the hell out of you white people . . . We're going to take your little children and dash them against the stones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All You Need Is Hate | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...sniper bullets spit into the dirt along the top of the trench. Down below the ridge, plum orchards in spring bloom conceal the Muslim lines. Exploding artillery shells trigger small avalanches along the rain-loosened earth walls. A young Serb slides into the trench, out of breath from his dash across a meadow of buttercups pocked by mortar craters. He has a question to ask that is important enough to risk his life. "Why does the world want to destroy us?" he wants to know. "We are victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Serbian Lines | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

Lynch also took second in the 100-meter dash, with a time of 12.4 seconds, Boyle said. Freshman Heather MacLennan jumped 37 feet in the triple jump, good enough for third place...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Mediocre Heps for Track | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...film. Problem is that by the time they receive this reward for services rendered, it may as well be a gold watch. When MGM made Romeo and Juliet in 1936, it cast Leslie Howard, 43, and Norma Shearer, 36, as the star-crossed teens. Laurence Olivier brought sepulchral dash to his Hamlet, but at 41 he was a bit too mature to play a college student convincingly in close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smiles of A Summer Night | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

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