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About 11 p.m. on Wednesday, a frantic man flagged down a police car in Brooklyn, N.Y. Something terrible was about to happen, he tried to tell the cops, using broken English and sign language. At one point he flung his arms apart to indicate an explosion. When a translator arrived at the local precinct house, the man reported a plot by men he was living with to set off an explosion in New York City's subways that could have matched in carnage the blast that had just devastated Jerusalem's busiest market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUBWAY SCARE: TERROR TAKES AIM AT NEW YORK | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...Igos sought shelter or tried to lie low to the ground or cover themselves with pillows, blankets or mattresses. Their home was leveled to its concrete foundation, and all that remained was the stripped and battered hulk of one of Larry's collection of '57 Chevys. In the frantic search for survivors, someone tacked a note to the front door of Larry's antique-auto-parts store: "Larry, Joan and the boys, I pray to God you read this. I have a motor home and travel trailer... Call me and tell me you made it. I'll bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOWHERE TO RUN | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

...with everyone scrounging for money in those last frantic weeks, no one was asking a lot of questions. Which is why the beneficiaries don't know much about their donor's background. Raised in Taiwan, Young joined the Taiwan navy as a supply officer, studied engineering in England and returned to Taipei, where he started an aerospace consulting firm. He later moved to Hong Kong, where he keeps a picture of himself with Ronald Reagan hanging on his office wall. Young served as the Asian agent for several aviation companies, including Pratt & Whitney and, more informally, British Aerospace. Over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE G.O.P.'S OWN CHINA CONNECTION | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...midst of a makeover, but on Broadway change comes slowly. A year after Rent was supposed to have revolutionized the Broadway musical, the Great White Way scarcely seems to have noticed. Nearly all this season's big musicals are arriving, as usual, in the last two frantic weeks before the Tony Award nominations. And far from showcasing a new generation of downtown talents, like Rent's Jonathan Larson or Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk's Savion Glover, this season could pass for a Friars Club reunion of old Broadway tunesmiths, with Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity), John Kander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRING IN 'DA TUNESMITHS | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...miniature Beanie Babies McD's is giving away. Get there soon. The cuddly Beanie Babies have been wildly popular since they were introduced in 1994 by Ty Inc., a toymaker based in Oak Brook, Illinois, also home to McDonald's. The privately held Ty has been so inundated by frantic parents looking for Beanies that earlier this year it decided to unlist its local number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BIZ WATCH | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

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