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...them swam ashore; the Lebanese found their wet suits and fins. At 12:41 a.m., on the outskirts of the town of Insariyeh, two miles inland, a pre-planted bomb suddenly detonated in the midst of the unit. Within seconds the Israelis were raked by machine-gun fire. Eleven died, and four lay wounded, leaving just one soldier unscathed and able to radio for help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BAD NEWS, PART 2: A BOTCHED RAID IN LEBANON | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...rescue: The Crimson's second, semiannual compilation of "Eleven Electives" to brighten your day and guide the way to a winning semester...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: ELEVEN ELECTIVES | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

Dignitaries and celebrities ? including Princess Diana ? who encountered the tiny four-foot-eleven figure all agreed she was an extraordinary woman. Journalists were no exception. "She exemplified the Christian virtue of self-giving in a most dramatic way," said Richard Ostling, TIME's religion correspondent. "She brought back the image of the old-fashioned, self-giving nun at a time when modern feminist Catholic images were coming to the fore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Teresa: An Inspiring Life | 9/5/1997 | See Source »

...complained to him but were calmed by Guyton's passionate explanation that the dangling shoes celebrated their black ancestors lynched in the South. Residents probably should have asked Guyton whether Soles of the Most High completed his artistic vision for their block. It didn't. Eleven years later, thousands of used shoes are piled by the sidewalk and hanging in the trees--along with rusty car hoods and tires strewn across a vacant lot and rows and rows of discarded vacuum cleaners, stuffed animals and broken dolls. Heidelberg Street is also festooned in polka dots. "I'm going to polka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DETROIT: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS POLKA-DOTTER | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...brothers' invention was perfected, the blimp has spent the past 30 years as the lofty billboard of the Goodyear Corp. Now, for a fee of $200,000 a month, such companies as Alta-Vista and Russell Stover are causing dozens of jumpy citizens to call FAA with UFO sightings. Eleven blimps are flying somewhere around the country, and there will be 13 by 1998. That's almost double the blimpage of a year ago. Most of them are made by the American Blimp Corp. of Hillsboro, Ore., which has designed a blimpette, that is, one so small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 25, 1997 | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

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