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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back to the earth, back to nature: that sums up the appeal of Indian adornment, plain or fancy. Even the most sophisticated Navajo silver carvings radiate intense, earthy vitality. Small pieces called Rock Kritters -- mostly rings, pins and tie clips -- leap with life: jumping men, running animals, charging warriors. Among the cheapest items available, they are adapted from ancient pictographs found in the Southwest desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desert Dazzlers | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...Apple Jr., Washington bureau chief of the New York Times, rather delicately puts it, "doing television can improve your access" to official sources. The economics are sweet for TV producers as well. They know that print journalists work cheap, are well informed and are readily available to leap into the electronic maw. Adds John McLaughlin, who in the early 1980s pioneered the food-fight format, in which print journalists engage in opinionated shouting matches: "They're also better performers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch: Hey, That's Me on TV! | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...absence of some sweeping new epidemic, a population boom or a technological leap backward, these pressures are likely to continue...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: How Does One Get Five Very Different Suitors to the Table? | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

...your favorite marine mammal into a truck for a drive to the Pacific Ocean. And to keep him refreshed, you'd probably run him through an automatic car wash. And then, like an animal tamer who uses love instead of a whip, you'd get your adorable orca to leap over a high jetty so he could be reunited with his pod. You'd go that far for a friend. Where there's a whale, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Of Whales | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

Americans have an overactive fascination with outer space. Ask yourself what was more important in the 1960s, Kennedy's assassination or Neil Armstrong's "giant leap...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: In Space, No One Can Hear the Deficit | 7/6/1993 | See Source »

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