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...agency is releasing a stream of striking panoramic shots taken by the rover and Pathfinder that provide convincing evidence that the planet was inundated by ancient floods, some the size of the massive deluge that filled the Mediterranean basin. Today's Martian forecast: dry, with a temperature at dawn of minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sojourner's Snapshots | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...visible organizing principle, just decrepit neighborhoods vanishing into gaping construction holes. It is Hong Kong without the veneer of British order, capitalism out of control. This is the world of money, money, money; a city that never sleeps, with dress shops open at midnight and vendors hawking at dawn. No wonder its presiding genius is Deng Xiaoping, smiling down from a giant mural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSIDE CHINA | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...Secret Struggle for Womanhood (Random House; 286 pages; $24), a number of critics have complained that the feminist author writes as a pop-culture illiterate. This is not entirely so, for surely no one else has ever found so much significance in the work of Tony Orlando and Dawn. Early in her book about the ways in which American society still fails to indoctrinate girls into a sexually confident adulthood, Wolf uses the singing group's Knock Three Times--a song about a guy who has a crush on a cute neighbor he doesn't know--as an example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: DO WE NEED MORE OPRAHS? | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...gonzo take on NBK's evolution offers an insider's view of show-biz egos. Among the choice bits: details about Stone's stoned-out mushroom trip in the desert and Tarantino's close connection with Miramax, the company that released his hits Pulp Fiction and From Dusk till Dawn. Writes Hamsher: "Quentin had been running his mouth off for months, telling people that he made all the decisions at Miramax, and that when he snapped his fingers, HARVEY WEINSTEIN jumped." A spokesperson for Tarantino says he has read some of the book, and many of the anecdotes are inaccurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...with a pair of 76s at the UNH Invitational, where we finished in ninth place out of 13 teams. Too, sophomore Doug MacBean promised much with his 74-79 at UNH, but as happened with me, this early rush of form was for Doug only a sort of false dawn...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Men's Golfers Weather Disappointing Season | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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