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...sure it was just a mistake that I didn't received the blessed candles, because I am a believer. I believe in other worlds and other lives, I believe in destiny and fate, and I believed, before I'd even met her, in Psychic Mrs. Gina and her Palm and Card Readings...

Author: By Reena Agrawal, | Title: No hairy moles here | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...substance, Generation X paints a fairly bleak self-portrait. The narrator drones on about his inane life, his inane friends and their inane lives, and his own pseudo-dys-functional family. The nominal plot revolves around three friends in Palm Springs, California, who spend most of their time swapping wacked-out parables that are supposed to contain within them, somewhere, the meaning of modern life (or lack thereof). The message? You guessed it, Butt-head: it sucks. Everything sucks. "Our Parents Had More," one chapter wails; for good measure, Coupland throws in an appendix of figures illustrating that, in fact...

Author: By Timothy P. Yu, | Title: The Vulgar Generation | 10/19/1993 | See Source »

Wolfgang B. Schneider, of W.B.S. Enterprises in Palm Springs, Cal., said he organized the convention so that "people would come to trade, sell, buy highly collectible items...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Swatch Dealers, Wearers Get Time of Day at Charles Hotel | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

Though the policemen still wear shoulder patches embroidered PALESTINE LIBERATION ARMY, their days of furtive desert bivouacs are over. The grounds of Amman's Royal Police Academy, where the men are training, are landscaped with hollyhocks and palm trees. And there is no target practice. "We don't know what weapons we'll have in Jericho," says Lieut. Colonel Mohamed Youssef Al Sadi, commander of a 20-man unit drawn from the Badr Brigade, which is expected to patrol Jericho. "We have forgotten our Kalashnikovs." They have been trained, however, to handle American M-16s. Whether the Israelis will allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Beating Swords into Billy Clubs | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...Newton MessagePad, which hit the market in August, is part of a new wave of pen-operated palm-top computers. It weighs under one pound and can be trained to recognize a user's handwriting, a feature that Apple hopes will make it the most personal of today's personal computers...

Author: By Etan J. Cohen, | Title: Newton Attracts Curiosity, Not Buyers | 9/28/1993 | See Source »

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