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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if all this succeeds, Spektr can't be used until the cosmonauts patch up the damage to its skin. On Sept. 3 Solovyev and Vinogradov are booked for a second walk--this one outside Mir--during which they'll crawl around the module looking for any punctures, which they hope to seal with rubbery "hermetic patches." Spektr can then be repressurized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW FIX-IT CREW CHECKS IN ABOARD MIR | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...that decision than she. In New York, a more germane question for the press would be whether the mayor's wife should give up the first lady's staff, budget and car if she's unwilling to act as first lady. Just maybe the Giulianis are in a rough patch. If they're lucky, they'll work it out. Maybe we should let them try. In peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEX, LIES AND SPECULATION | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...been chatting away with their aides via cell phones, hard lines, fax and the Internet. Recently, DEA officials say, the cnp raided a group of private telecommunications switching centers that the cartel leaders had organized in Bogota so they could dial a local number and have a clerk patch their calls to numbers anywhere around the world. The CNP telecommunications crackdown has put a cramp in the dons' style, but they still use visiting henchmen to carry messages to the outside. The war on drugs isn't over by a long shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

Unlike Henry Fonda or Burt Lancaster, Stewart did not have the luck to star in melancholy-twilight masterpieces; his final films were mostly amiable and mundane. He eased into late maturity with rueful good humor, telling director Peter Bogdanovich, "After 70 it's all patch, patch, patch." And he remained touched by his celebrity. "We were coming out of Chasen's one night," says Bogdanovich, "when a man put his hand out and said, 'Mr. Stewart, I don't guess it means much to you, but I want you to know I think you're wonderful.' Jimmy had taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WONDERFUL FELLA: JAMES STEWART, 1908-1997 | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...tennis balls could embroil Hutchinson in its most explosive animal-rights debate since last summer. (That was when a dog was accidentally dragged down Main Street from the back of a pickup truck.) The ruckus erupted earlier this year when the city decided that a patch of grass at the back of the fairgrounds was perfect for building two new practice baseball diamonds. Perfect, at least, until Bill Moyer, Hutchinson's parks superintendent, spotted about 75 squirrelly brown mammals popping in and out of burrows and mowing the lawn with their teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUTCHINSON, KANSAS: PLEASE DON'T SHOOT THE PRAIRIE DOGS | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

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