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...Vice President's wife last month contradicted her husband's public comments by insisting that if their 13-year-old daughter ever became pregnant out of wedlock, she would "carry the baby to term." Mrs. Bush had little use for this inflexible logic. Said she: "You can't pin a child down and say, 'You can't have an abortion; that's against the law.' " But the First Lady quickly added that any differences between the two women were a measure of the G.O.P.'s diversity. "((Marilyn)) does it differently. That's what's big about our party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Days of Their Wives | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...billion bits of data onto a square inch of disk space -- 300 times as much as an ordinary disk, and 100 times as much as the most advanced magneto-optical technology. The system could put two copies of War and Peace on the head of a pin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's . . . Superdisk | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

With his crazy stare, massive knuckles and tattooed biceps, Jimmy T. looks like an urban grenade with a faulty pin. The five-alarm face fits nicely with his career as an up-and-coming member of a Chicago gang called the Vice Lords. But when his face relaxes and the baby fat sinks back in place, a different visage emerges. Disarmed of weapons and bravado, Jimmy is a terrified 16-year- old who did something very, very stupid one hot summer night this past June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Way Out | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

...croissant crowd, the movie has earned many critics' indulgences. It does have some B-movie virtues: director Carl Franklin gives the actors space to breathe the rancid air of paperback tough- guy tragedy; and Williams, with her lovely insolence, looks like star quality from here. But to pin four-star raves on this modest melodrama is to mistake a 7-Eleven candy snatcher for a master thriller killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Aug. 3, 1992 | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

...bent on improving on the state of mankind," says Bruce Fein, a conservative legal scholar, approvingly. On the wall of Thomas' chambers is a Harriett Erlich drawing titled Freedom that shows three black children with outstretched arms. Thomas might ponder its message; his own liberation from the poverty of Pin Point, Ga., and his rise to the court would have been unthinkable without the body of liberal jurisprudence he now casts into doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging Thomas | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

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