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...however, was also a prime target audience. The launch came just hours before diplomats from both countries were due to sit down in New York City to iron out a minicrisis that erupted over the North's nuclear ambitions. U.S. spy satellites revealed a massive excavation northeast of Pyongyang that suggested the North could be attempting to revive a nuclear weapons project they had agreed to shelve. It's still not clear what is going on at the dig. Some analysts guess that the project is a kind of bluff, an attempt to leverage the impoverished regime's only real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missile With A Message | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

LONG AND PLEATED The folks at Gucci call this magnificent skirt navy, but it looks iron gray to us. Long, but not flowing, it's a uniform for women with real legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview: Autumn Ascendant | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

Then last week Iron Mike was involved in a three-car fender bender in Maryland that allegedly turned into a scuffle. Now imagine the poor blokes in the other cars who see Mike Tyson bulling out of a car driven by his wife. Do you cover your ears? Do you run for the hills? Montgomery County police say two second-degree assault charges were filed against Tyson after he allegedly threw a punch at Abmielec Saucedo, 62, despite a bodyguard's efforts to restrain him, and then went to the other car and kicked Richard Hardick, 50, in the groin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Handicapping Iron Mike | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...clincher came when AH 84001 was compared with rocks from the moon -- the control experiment of lifelessness. "Within an hour of looking at the lunar meteorites, we knew," said Sears. "We found objects on the lunar meteorites that we cannot distinguish from the Martian meteorites." What's more, iron oxide crystals on the rock suggest it was formed at temperatures eight times higher than boiling water -- too high to support life. Not that this means the Red Planet is and always was a dead planet; we just have to look at the other rocks, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of a Martian Dream | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

Mike Tyson finds out whether he will be allowed back into the ring tomorrow when the New Jersey state Athletic Control Board decides whether to award him a boxing license. Don't start laying in beer for the Tyson-Holyfield grudge match, though: Iron Mike's a longshot to get back in, and his rambling, sometimes belligerent plea for understanding in a hearing before the board last week didn't do him any favors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tomorrow's News: Friday, August 14 | 8/12/1998 | See Source »

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