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Once again, the Mob's former desert stopover is on the remake. This joint once prospered as a venue for naughty, even dangerous diversion. Then in the 1980s, Las Vegas tried to go mainstream, transforming itself into a desert Disneyland--the Rat Pack gone to the rug rats. Up went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas--Over The Top: In With The New | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

How about educational software? So far, there's little hard evidence to prove it really works, even though Cook insists that the Reader Rabbit series helped his eldest son learn to read. But software doesn't have to be educational to be a good buy. Just Grandma and Me became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Make A Better Student: Hard Truths About Software | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

BILL CLINTON Mysterious magnetic star sends dangerous rays toward earth. At last, the diversion he's prayed for!

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 12, 1998 | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

For the Captain's associates, the feud is a sad diversion from Cousteau's message. "It's the saga of all great families," sighs Claude Wesly, 68, who came aboard in 1959. "Time will take care of it. Cousteau's work is immortal."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cousteau's Legacy: His Son and Widow Compete to Carry On | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Swissair Flight 111, an MD-11 jumbo jet built by McDonnell Douglas in 1991, left New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport en route to Geneva, Switzerland, promptly at 8:18 p.m. E.T. Not quite an hour later, at 9:14, the Swiss pilot, Urs Zimmermann, radioed, "Pan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Safe Harbor | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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