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Bubba lives in the White House, the house that is zapped into holocaustal flames by a flying saucer's death ray in Independence Day. The house that, come Christmas, will be invaded by uggy green creatures with no manners at all in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! The house whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INVASION HAS BEGUN! | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

And the phenomenon is here to stay, for a while. Hollywood is launching more than a dozen science-fiction movies within the next year or so. Besides Mars Attacks! (a gleefully nihilistic vaudeville that promises to play Dr. Strangelove to ID4's relatively docudramatic Fail-Safe) and the inevitable sequels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INVASION HAS BEGUN! | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

But for longtime readers like Brown, the real sci-fi is "hard" sci-fi. It's the literary equivalent of a whiskey shot: bracing, no-nonsense extrapolation of today's science. And it's coming back after years of neglect. The colonization of Mars, for example--a quintessential hard sci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LITERATURE OF NERDS GOES MAINSTREAM | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

Besides these concrete problems, there is also the Russians' loss of psychological security. "If you were viewing Russia from Mars," says Yuli Guzman, a former liberal member of Russia's State Duma, "you would have to say life has got better in the last five years. But if people are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA'96: THE PEOPLE CHOOSE | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

But it takes two genders to make a gap. The overall trend for the past 20 years has been a shift to the right, which means men are the ones who have changed, while women have remained, on average, closer to where both sexes used to be: favoring, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENDER: WHOSE GAP IS IT, ANYWAY? | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

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