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...video, pencil neck. And you can tell those leotarded WWF sissies that the Wild Man from the Desert Sand is coming after them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So You Wanna Wrestle On TV? | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

Jones, who lives in the high desert northeast of town, goes into that closet a mild-mannered secretary and comes out Krazy K.C., Wild Man from the Desert Sand, with a ponytail, Gestapo boots, combat fatigues and Harley suspenders. And why this particular getup? "You go with what you know," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So You Wanna Wrestle On TV? | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...more than a day, scouring terrain and relaying video to a ground station 3,000 miles away. Last March a Hawk on a simulated mission surprised its manned F-16 chase plane by rolling onto its back at 400 mph, diving and smashing into the California desert. An investigation found that the plane had even prepared to die: It shut its engine down, erased classified computer data and set its flaps for a death spiral. The investigation also found that at the same time, more than 100 miles away, a second team of Air Force personnel preparing for another Global...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doomed Air Force Drone Was Just Following Orders | 1/16/2000 | See Source »

...song itself tries to assert her "woman in me" mantra and it's not too bad. But a girl wearing a leopard print coat and hood in the desert? What was she thinking? The video's plot's pretty simple: Shania looks hot (I mean literally--she's gotta be overheated in that animal skin), she rejects like five different hitchhikers for no apparent reason (including a white boy who looks uncomfortable in his sheik outfit), and she ends the video without a ride, lonely and overdressed in the desert. The lyrics of the song wax poetic about needing...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In The [K]now | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

...really worry Moscow are Russian. Media support is crucial to the generals, who believe, like their American counterparts in Vietnam, that they lost the last war because of bad press. This time they are taking no chances. In an operation that is half Soviet-style press censorship and half Desert Storm-style media management, the Russian command is totally controlling coverage. TV networks are not allowed to photograph Russian casualties and never show combat. When things go wrong, as they apparently did last week in Grozny, the official response to foreign reports is apoplectic. Accounts of the incident were, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Lessons | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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