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Geysers like Old Faithful fire fountains of steaming water from the earth at impressively regular intervals. When the intervals change, though, it may be time to stop being impressed and start running for cover. According to a report in Science, the interval between one geyser's eruptions, at least, tends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quake Predictor | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

GERMANY. Alienated youths known as skinheads have shown terrifying power to unleash violence against foreigners, especially in what was formerly East Germany. There the populace went from Nazi to communist totalitarianism without any democratic interval. So far, unification has brought economic instability rather than prosperity and has wiped out the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: Surge to The Right | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

In technical jargon, Ancel explains her theorem as follows: "Given a surjective continuous transformation from a circle to itself, every aperiodic interval is one way."

Author: By George J. Kim, | Title: Two Math Whizzes Whose Work Counts | 10/12/1991 | See Source »

It was enough, though. By the time the President spoke, the deadline he had set in the Rose Garden ultimatum had expired 10 hours earlier. The interval had been filled with diplomatic flopping around that looked increasingly like playacting -- or simple stalling. Iraq had accepted, that morning in Moscow, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battleground: Marching to A Conclusion | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

The interval between August and January took on a peculiar unreality -- a psychological suspension, an air lock between Saddam's offense and the retaliation against him, between peace and war. The world went on hold. Disturbances that in other times would have riveted attention -- the Soviet crackdown in Lithuania, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anxiety Before the Storm | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

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