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...taped to the glass doors at the entrance to the Indian health facility in Crownpoint, New Mexico: IF YOU HAVE HAD FEVERS, CHILLS, JOINT AND MUSCLE ACHES, COUGHING OR HEADACHES, PLEASE NOTIFY THE NURSE AT THE FRONT DESK IMMEDIATELY. Inside, the waiting room of the 39-bed hospital is jam-packed: the old, the middle-aged, children and even an unattended prisoner in flimsy ankle cuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evil Over the Land | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...their carrier on tails of flame. As they climb through the gathering darkness, signals from the radar domes and computers of Air Force AWACS planes direct the jets to targets nestled in the forests and pastures of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Ahead of them, electronic-warfare jets swoop down to jam any Serbian antiaircraft radar that might still be working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reluctant Warrior | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

...many words, but that's the view he bought. He'd gotten here, for chrisakes, and the polls said the people were with him, so he decided he'd stick it to the obstructionists." The President's innate arrogance took over. "Bill Clinton firmly believes he can exit any jam and gain any success simply because he's so smart and works so hard," says a longtime Clinton friend. "The badge of honor in his White House is the fact that no one dawdles and everyone brags about not sleeping." (Such an affection for process over substance dominated the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest the First 100 Days | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

Davidson also got himself out of another jam in the fourth, when he struck out the side after loading the bases with no outs...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Baseball Silences MIT, 9-1, at Soldiers | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

...sound was standard funk, with grinding grooves punctuated by horn blasts and organ riffs and Norcott in call-and-response with his backup singers. But standard funk, by its very funkiness, makes for a booty-shaking jam. Even Funkistopholes, played by Seth Mnookin, the vanquished evil anti-funk, was witnessed in the audience grooving to the tunes of his nemesis...

Author: By James B. Loeffler, | Title: FUNK | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

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