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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spiritual pilgrim as well, exploring psychic phenomena the scientist within him assessed carefully but many times failed to discredit. He says he bent spoons, visited a past gladiatorial life in Rome, had his aura fluffed as you would a poodle. Once, he found himself in the desert conversing with a cactus, which he insulted, only to feel contrite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Fiction's Prime Provocateur | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...future." When the Aziz family set up a small T shirt-printing shop in 1989, the Israeli occupation authorities imposed taxes she says they could not afford to pay. In 1991 Anwar was arrested as a suspected Islamic Jihad supporter, and spent two years in prison in the Negev desert. He was released only last April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches Meeting the Deadline | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "1922" at 2 p.m. The tortuous anddevastating march of a group of captives throughthe desert of Asia Minor, immediately after itsdisaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard Daily Entertainment & Events | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...veterans' campaign for greater official recognition of the malady was bolstered last week when the Pentagon reversed itself and accepted a report from the Czech military indicating that some of its chemical sensors detected trace amounts of mustard gas and the nerve poison sarin in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm. A team of U.S. experts determined that the Czech evidence was both reliable and convincing. The experts could not explain, however, where the toxins came from. "There were no Scud launches, no artillery exchanges, or no offensive actions at this time that could have delivered the chemical agents," Defense Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Gas Mystery | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...Russians? "They wanna be us, but they'll never be." The Kurds? "Losers" who don't know enough to come out of the desert and get a Big Mac. The Iraqis? They're asking for U.S. aid because their cities have been leveled and their people killed. "Yeah, that's basically what we wanted to do to you. That's why they call it a f-----' " Kinison suspects that the Allies finished the war in six days because they wanted to skip town "before Bob Hope comes back with another cavalcade of loser has-been stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kinison Is Back. Aaaaaaaaaagh! | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

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