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For a man in a box, Saddam Hussein manages to find an amazing amount of wiggle room. He is walled in by economic sanctions and no-fly zones and international inspectors, but he still pops out with one ploy after another calculated to thwart the U.N. and inflate his image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: THE PALACE OF MIRRORS | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

A gurgling stream cascades through lavish tropical undergrowth. Orchids twine among ferns; palm fronds weave a dense canopy. But those palms bend a trifle too symmetrically, and there is something mechanical about the way a monarch butterfly flutters its wings. In fact, "it's all an illusion," says Linda Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THINKING BIG | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

If music appears to express something," Igor Stravinsky once wrote, "this is an illusion and not a reality." Scientists at the Music Research Group at Britain's University of Leicester would beg to differ. They maintain that music conjures up images that can have a powerful, if subliminal, influence on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAYS OF WINE AND MUZAK | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

According to the event's coordinator, David S. Abrams '98, the haunted-house illusion was created by decorating the tunnels in the Adams House basement with streamers, strobe lights and blowing fans.

Author: By Elizabeth M. Kass, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Elementary School Students Enjoy HAND One-Shot Haunted House | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

How can an American really be a Buddhist, a person who stresses the abolition of desires, including that for a future life? Our whole capitalistic culture depends on individualism, whereas Buddhism looks upon the individual as an illusion. Buddhism asks us to become a different person, but most of us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 3, 1997 | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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