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...acres, Animal Kingdom, fourth of the Walt Disney World parks--after Magic Kingdom (opened 1971), EPCOT Center (1982) and Disney-MGM (1989)--is the biggest. The company hired 2,800 workers to build the park and 2,500 "cast members" (performing employees) to entertain and instruct all the visitors. As many as 10 million are expected the first year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Beauty and the Beasts | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...really explain matters because opal mining has scuffled along here for decades. Except for tankerloads of beer and gasoline, contact with the rest of Australia is largely cut off. Mail to the outside is stamped, sorted and bagged, but not sent out. A schoolteacher who arrives from Brisbane to instruct the settlement's children is judged to be dangerous and is, as smirking locals say, "transferred." Nothing more is heard from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost in the Wilderness | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...show horse. She brings up a fictional character who looked "impossibly sad, like a horse's eyes." It is a quote, she says, from Nabokov, and she pronounces the novelist's name correctly, with the stress on the second syllable, exactly as exacting old Vladimir used to instruct his readers. He might have been able to appreciate this latest of pop goddesses, this star of the Lilith Fair. After all, it was a Nabokov character who said that while he was capable of loving Eve, "it was Lilith he longed for." Jewel's is a fey, insidious charm, equal parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE SHAPING OF JEWEL | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...Harvard, Perry will teach courses related to her specialty and may also instruct in the field of comparative politics, Shepsle said...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, | Title: Three Professors Appointed in Social Sciences | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...generation reared in a more "permissive" and "anti-Establishment" atmosphere. He groups Clinton in a class of such other young Democratic Governors as Ray Mabus of Mississippi and Buddy Roemer of Louisiana, who "went off to school at places like Harvard and Yale and then came back to instruct their fellow Southerners in the errors of our ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LOTT LIKE CLINTON? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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