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...terrible cries of people waiting for help," wrote a reporter for Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper. In devastated Spitak, a correspondent for Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya said, rescue workers heard a small girl trapped under a pile of rubble cry for her mother and ask for water. They lowered a pipe for her to drink through, but were unable to free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union When the Earth Shook | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

Lazer Tag, you've been zapped! Teddy Ruxpin, pipe down! The best-selling toy of the 1988 Christmas season is a video game: the Nintendo Entertainment System. The toy consists of a computer control box and a pair of joysticks (about $80), a gun-light Zapper ($25) and software cartridges ($25 to $40) that play such games as Super Mario Bros. 2 and Double Dragon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS: Nintendo Tops The Wish Lists | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...weeks ago, Trutt's passion came dangerously close to exploding. Acting on a tip from an informant, police in Norwalk, Conn., arrested Trutt seconds after she placed a powerful pipe bomb studded with roofing nails outside the headquarters of the U.S. Surgical Corp., a firm that animal-rights activists have accused of cruelty to the dogs it uses for medical research and training. On the seat of Trutt's rented Chevy pickup was a remote-controlled detonator from which a battery had been removed to prevent an accidental explosion. A subsequent search of her apartment turned up three more bombs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Serious Case of Puppy Love | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

None of the rare books harmed in Wednesday's steam pipe leak at Langdell Law Library were completely ruined, but between 100 and 200 books were damaged, a library official said yesterday...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Steam Leak Damages Rare Books | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Both the audience and the other characters disbelieve her at first, but that does not faze the Dutch specialist. Andra Gordon plays this pipe-toting Freudian with the zeal of a religious fanatic--and, thankfully, without a phony accent...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Stage Fright | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

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