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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People in central Texas are used to spring tempests, when cold fronts from the north clash with warm, wet Gulf weather. They know enough to find a ditch to lie in, or a sturdy, windowless room in the center of the house, preferably under a mattress or in a bathtub. And the citizens of Jarrell, a small town 42 miles up the interstate from Austin, did have time to take precautions. Meteorologists, concerned with the unseasonably high dew points (it has been a bumper wild-flower season) were broadcasting warnings. Tornado sirens went off at 3:55 p.m., 10 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOWHERE TO RUN | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

MARRIED. MATTHEW BRODERICK, 34, winsomely boyish actor, and current Broadway princess (in Once Upon a Mattress) SARAH JESSICA PARKER, 32; secretly, at a New York City synagogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 2, 1997 | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...when I attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we assumed that "no frills" was the part of college education that toughened you up for the future. A hard mattress, no pillow, a 40-watt bulb, concrete floors, a muddy campus, hobnail boots and highly committed but probably underpaid teachers all contributed to making tuition $180, half a room $29 and meals at Swain Hall $126 for the year. That was the normal road to Phi Beta Kappa. EDWARD RONDTHALER Croton-on-Hudson, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 7, 1997 | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

Early yesterday morning, as blossoming crocuses and daffodils were being covered with a mattress of spring snow, the stalwarts of Harvard Square's late night culture were running at full bore...

Author: By Richard M. Burns, | Title: Night Owls Flock To 24-Hour Haunts | 4/2/1997 | See Source »

...short trip to the Lincoln Bedroom. The funny thing, of course, is that Lincoln never slept there. That room served as his study. And because of a renovation ordered by Harry Truman that demolished the interior of the White House, even the walls are 20th century. The mattress is no treat; the furniture is lugubrious Victorian; and for good measure the place is supposed to be haunted. Winston Churchill is said to have sighted Lincoln's ghost. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands reported an ectoplasm in a stovepipe hat. Bill Clinton thought he saw some easy dollars. He must have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEP RIGHT UP | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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