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...daughter of a former evangelistic preacher, Butterfly was bartending in Fayetteville, Ark., when she was in a nearly fatal car accident. Reassessing her life, she headed west last summer and ran into activists from Earth First, the environmental group that has waged a civil-disobedience campaign for the past decade to save old-growth forests. Soon the chirpy New Ager was volunteering to tree-sit, a favorite Earth First tactic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julia Hill, Butterfly: Five Months At 180 Ft. | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

WRONGFULLY ACCUSED (Aug. 7). Geezers can be goofs too. Leslie Nielsen reunites with Pat Proft (who also worked on Naked Gun), for a parody of 63 recent crime thrillers. Fine, but aren't those films their own insidious parodies? And didn't Fatal Instinct send up the genre back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aieee! It's Summer!! | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...continued jetting around the world to get more stories and interview leaders ranging from the awful--Saddam Hussein--to the awesome--Nelson Mandela--to the truly historic--Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1987, hours before he probably would have died, he received a heart transplant. He bravely endured near fatal attempts by his body to reject the new heart and came back to work and to more adventures. When he fell ill late last year, the doctors didn't think he would make it past Christmas. But in March, when TIME celebrated its 75th birthday, Karsten Prager, resplendent in his tuxedo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: KARSTEN PRAGER | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

While we often see you as our savior, here to enhance and brighten our lives, you must also accept that you are the "blue screen of death." Your "fatal exceptions" and "invalid page faults" have been responsible for hours upon hours of lost productivity--productivity that might have been gained with the increased speed you provide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ode to Technology | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

FIRST DO NO HARM? Adverse reaction to medication is fatal to 100,000 patients in hospitals each year, making this one of the nation's leading killers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Report: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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