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...movie, which does have a sort of cheeky energy, goes into narrative and cliche overload once the spacemen start exploring the unnamed planet -- Shall we call it Lucasland? -- where they set down. There's a slave population to be freed, a tyrant to be deposed, some cheapish special effects to put on display, and a lot of problems about getting safely back to Earth to solve. Tying all this together, Stargate stumbles to a hasty, muddled ending instead of soaring to a conclusion worthy of the only thing that's first rate about it -- its sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Indiana Jones, Space Linguist | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

According to Dr. Catlin, sophomore year is a time when many students begin defining their identity independent of their attachments to home. Freed from the structure of parents and teachers' authority, many second-year students feel the pressure of determining for themselves what their priorities should...

Author: By Roy Astrachan, | Title: The Sophomore Slump | 11/18/1994 | See Source »

Last Friday, Edward W. Honaker, a welder imprisoned for 10 years on a rape conviction, was freed after DNA profiling proved he could not have raped a 19 year old girl...

Author: By Kris J. Thiessen, | Title: Fingering Statistics On O.J.'s DNA | 10/25/1994 | See Source »

...then recovery arrived, and Wilson, a onetime Nixon advance man, staged a comeback his old boss would have admired. Freed of his fiscal straitjacket, he joyfully pressed the new hot buttons: crime and illegal immigration. His ads trumpeted his leadership of last year's triumphant three-strikes-and- you're-out movement and his enthusiasm for the death penalty. He signed on to Proposition 187, the tremendously popular, probably unconstitutional, California ballot issue that would deny the state's 1.6 million illegal aliens any health care, welfare grants or even public education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Governors on the Run | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

...vote turned out to be the best thing that could have happened - at least from the point of view of the insatiably curious. The Chicago team quickly rounded up support from private sources, including the Robert Wood Johnson, Rockefeller and Ford foundations. And freed of political constraints, they were able to take the survey beyond behavior related to aids transmission to tackle the things inquiring minds really want to know: Who is having sex with whom? How often do they do it? And when they are behind closed doors, what exactly do they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Now for the Truth About Americans and Sex | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

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