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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...waiting. The hall has been filled for at least half an hour -- a sea of farmers mixed with auto workers mixed with men dressed in camouflage. But they wait gladly, since they know why Mark Koernke is late. Newspapers all over the country covered his appearance yesterday in Palm Springs, California. Tonight's audience, which was here for him back when he was just a radio voice identifying himself as "Mark from Michigan," is proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARK KOERNKE | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

...local economy survive when more than 50% of its population is on welfare? Perfect soup to brew the likes of Timothy McVeigh and other militia types. So don't blame Needles for the ills she suffers. It is not her fault. BARBIE JOHNSTON FREEMAN Palm Desert, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1995 | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

...reads palms," Stewart says. "She read James's palm. She said, `You're going to get married twice. The first time it's going to end in divorce...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: From MORTARBOARDS to Matrimony | 6/7/1995 | See Source »

While the minuscule monsters have traditionally attacked only people who stepped on their turf, they've recently brought their mayhem indoors as well. Says Marion Bernhardt, 78, of West Palm Beach, Florida, who last year survived an ant assault in a hospital bed: "I was stung all up and down my legs, and I had welts all over them and on my side. They burned for days. I never had such an experience in all my life." She was lucky. At least 50 people have died in recent years from allergic reactions to fire-ant stings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANTS IN OUR PANTS | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

Ginger Rogers, the 1940 Oscar-winner best remembered for dancing cheek-to-cheek with Fred Astaire in a string of glittering, Depression-era musicals, died at her home in Rancho Mirage near Palm Springs. The pair first danced during Broadway rehearsals for "Girl Crazy," a 1930 Gershwin musical. Her close friend President Reagan (in an uncredited paraphrase of a Gloria Steinem one-liner) said in 1986: "Her male counterpart got the lion's share of publicity but Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, and did it with high heels on, and did it backwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GINGER ROGERS DIES AT 83 | 4/25/1995 | See Source »

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