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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to happen, no matter how big the Republican Convention bounce or how desperate the Democrats' need to entice jaded network anchors. Chelsea, who has attended only one State dinner, will ride the train to Chicago. She's no longer the vulnerable 12-year-old who walked into Madison Square Garden with her parents in 1992, when she was so protected that most people were surprised to discover the Clintons had a child. But at 16 she is still too young to be exposed to the Princess Di treatment--a Barbara Walters special, MTV, the cover of Seventeen--that might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHELSEA CLINTON: THE WHITE HOUSE'S UNTROUBLED TEEN | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

LONDON: What kind of hijackers bring their families along and never even threaten violence? A group of Iraqis who took over an Airbus 310 in Khartoum on Monday and just wanted a ride to London so they could defect. After several hours of negotiations at London's Stanstad Airport which brought the Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Refugees, and the Iraqi Community Association of London into the loop, the hijackers, pleading for political asylum, gave themselves up without harming any of the 199 people aboard. "It was such a low-key hijacking, it hasn't gotten people terribly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Understated Hijacking | 8/29/1996 | See Source »

LONDON: What kind of hijackers bring their families along and never even threaten violence? A group of Iraqis who took over an Airbus 310 in Khartoum on Monday and just wanted a ride to London so they could defect. After several hours of negotiations at London's Stanstad Airport which brought the Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Refugees, and the Iraqi Community Association of London into the loop, the hijackers, pleading for political asylum, gave themselves up without harming any of the 199 people aboard. "It was such a low-key hijacking, it hasn't gotten people terribly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Understated Hijacking | 8/28/1996 | See Source »

LONDON: What kind of hijackers bring their families along and never even threaten violence? A group of Iraqis who took over an Airbus 310 in Khartoum on Monday and just wanted a ride to London so they could defect. After several hours of negotiations at London's Stanstad Airport which brought the Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Refugees, and the Iraqi Community Association of London into the loop, the hijackers, pleading for political asylum, gave themselves up without harming any of the 199 people aboard. "It was such a low-key hijacking, it hasn't gotten people terribly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Understated Hijacking | 8/27/1996 | See Source »

...spontaneously on earth, or did it come from outer space? The scientific community is sharply split on the question, and the evidence from Mars not only heats up the debate but also adds a tantalizing third possibility: life-forms may have arisen on Mars first and then hitched a ride on a meteorite to Earth--or vice versa. As Stanford University chemist Richard Zare puts it, "Who is to say that we are not all Martians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAS THE COSMOS SEEDED WITH LIFE? | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

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