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* The Air Force lost an eight-engine, $55-million B-52 down in the Indian Ocean.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: War Update | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

Counterfeit armaments can easily fool pilots zipping overhead who may not have time to analyze infrared images of their targets, which reveal the wooden husks below for what they are. Except, that is, when the decoys include heaters to simulate the infrared signature of, say, a tank engine, and perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoys: Tanks but No Tanks | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

The ominous silence after distress calls from Amelia Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed 10-E Electra in the Pacific in 1937 touched off one of aviation's greatest mysteries. Last week the FBI confirmed that a likely clue to her last landing site had been found. It was an aluminum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Did She Die on Nikumaroro? | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

While Kuwait's investments bring in about $20 million a day, the economy-in- exile is driven by another engine as well, the Kuwait Petroleum Corp., the world's 12th largest oil company. From its London office on New Bond Street, KPC and its subsidiaries own and operate a fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

If America's epoch is to last, the underlying character of American culture must remain true to itself as it is pulled toward a common global denominator by its entertainment engine. But danger signals are already present: too few movies characterized by nuance, or even good old American nuttiness; more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Leisure Empire | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

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