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Sometimes Norton is the soft guy: a lawyer helping a porn king (Larry Flynt), a fellow whose girlfriend falls for a convict (Everyone Says I Love You), a despondent drone surrendering to the spell of a pummeling anarchist (Fight Club). Sometimes he's the bad boy: an ex-con luring a respectable pal into the gambling underworld (Rounders) or a neo-Nazi with an impressionable kid brother (American History X). And once or twice--in his heralded movie debut Primal Fear, for example--he is both mild and wild, with schizophrenic tendencies bubbling up at whim or will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Norton Exposure | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...help you?" The sweatshirt-clad student attendant will drone drowsily, his glazed eyes previously fixated on a challenging game of Minesweeper...

Author: By T. S. Dasgupta, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Widener's Smut Stacks Reveal Much | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...GLOBAL HAWK, which is under development, is a $45 million drone with a 116-ft. wingspan that can fly for 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 m.p.h., 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pentagon Capers | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...Force pilots argue that there has to be a "man in the loop" - a person in the cockpit. A recently completed investigation into a crash of the Pentagon's most sophisticated unmanned aircraft may reinforce their bias. The Global Hawk, which is under development, is a $45 million drone with a 116-foot wingspan that can fly for 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...

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

Navy vessels equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and seasoned divers struggled to answer what were, initially, unanswerable questions. The Deep Drone, an underwater robot outfitted with sonar and cameras, located the crucial black boxes--the flight-data recorder and cockpit-voice recorders--within days. The flight-data recorder from the 767-300 is a new design that stores 55 measurements of the plane's movements and control inputs--as much as five times more than previous models--that should help investigators piece together what went wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Thin Air | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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