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...apparent absence of water at the impact sites provides a clue about how far the S-L 9 fragments penetrated Jupiter's atmosphere before exploding. Theorists think that a layer of water vapor lies some 60 miles below the visible cloud tops; above the vapor layer, about 30 miles down, are clouds believed to consist of ammonium hydrosulfide, a sulfur compound. Since no water seems to have been stirred up, the explosions probably took place in the presumed sulfide layer. If researchers confirm that the sulfur rose up from Jupiter, it will be "a major discovery," says University of Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jupiter's Bruises | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

With the malaise of nihilism, the impending doom of the breakdown of the ozone layer, the tensions which seem to fill our lives on a day to day basis, it is nice, and comforting to escape into the life a small Southern town with its innocent and simple superstar and forget. Happy viewing, and may your destiny be as magical as Forrest...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Mama Says, 'Forrest Gump Is a Good Movie' | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

...sure she could not afford even that strand of camouflage. Ted ambushed Dana (not their real names) as she walked from her car to a crafts store in Denver. Slashing with a knife, Ted, a pharmaceutical scientist, lopped off Dana's ponytail, then grabbed her throat, adding a fresh layer of bruises to her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Violence Hits Home | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...terrible to watch and impossible not to. That was the nature of the entire week, as America stopped its traffic to watch each clue scrape away another layer of the mystery. Where the facts were missing, the suspicions sufficed to keep the audience fed. When there was nothing new to report, the reporters interviewed each other, covering the coverage and defending themselves against accusations that they had already put Simpson on trial for murdering his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman before he had even been charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: O.J. Simpson: End of the Run | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

Naipaul is an artful arranger. His technique is to layer memory and history so that the past is an iridescence that colors the present. Layering also evokes our identities or, as Naipaul puts it, "In our blood and bone and brain we carry the memories of thousands of beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Literary Platypus V.S. | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

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