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As the jackpot for Powerball, the obsession-inducing multistate lottery, climbed past $250 million last week, few could resist the urge to make all those dollars seem less abstract. What could a quarter billion dollars actually get you? TV and radio news spots gave us a hint: the Chicago Bulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lucky Thirteen | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

Out of Sight is a very visual film, also not because it takes the easy path of dwelling on its attractive main characters. Color dominates the atmosphere of the movie, from the tropical saturation of the Miami scenes to the dingy gray of inner-city Detroit. A mesmerizing clarity of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clooney's Latest Makes Great Date Material | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

Digital printing systems are breathing new life into out-of-print books. Lightning Print Inc. of LaVergne, Tenn., makes inexpensive ($15-$25), quickie paperback versions of older books, allowing bibliophiles to discover forgotten works from Phillip K. Dick, Doris Lessing and others. Only 150 titles are available to date, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Jun. 15, 1998 | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

On the face of it Dorje Shugden is not an appealing prisoner of conscience. He is depicted--by friends--as a lightning-breathing terror with three bloodshot eyes, wreathed in the smoke of burning human flesh. In fact, however, as one of a pantheon of "protector deities," he exercises his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monks vs. Monks | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

C'mon, choke me!" barks instructor Darren Levine to one of his students, a wiry lieutenant with the Los Angeles police department. The officer obliges and pays the price. Lightning fast, Levine breaks free and delivers a kick to his opponent's groin. The officer doubles over, only to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choke! Gouge! Smash! | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

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