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...That's pure Jackie-an engaging presence offscreen and on who, unlike other cinema studs, projects no roiling torment, no existential grudge against the world. He seems a contented guy. And why not? A movie actor since he was seven, stunt man in a Bruce Lee movie at 18, and now Asia's No. 1 star, he is in total control of his films: supervising the stunts, singing the theme songs and, on 11 pictures, directing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE CAN! | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...those making decisions on our behalf. Having representatives make laws for citizens has merit. But in such a system, we lose the input of others who may be more qualified than the legislators to judge, or we may fail to hear from those who will be affected. A pure form of democracy does exist in a country of economic and political stability: Switzerland. Why haven't more countries imitated this model? The answer lies in the type of person attracted to politics in the democratic system, which bestows power, prestige and privilege. Politicians are not about to voluntarily give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1995 | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...scientists have a more compelling argument. They say that the near-zero gravity of the space station will allow them to grow extraordinarily pure semiconductor crystals, or to do certain types of cancer research...

Author: By David J. Andorsky, | Title: A Space Station Is Too Costly | 2/7/1995 | See Source »

...what I expected," said Allison M. Briscoe '98, of Hawaii. "I thought it would be all clean and pure and nice, but it's really slushy and brown, and I fell down yesterday...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: Winter Returns With a Vengeance | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...There is a place in Manila called Smoking Mountain, and it's basically a mountain formed of pure garbage," says Murray, a graduate student in Harvard's environmental engineering department...

Author: By Wilson J. Liao, | Title: Scientists Devise New Pollution Index | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

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