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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Handyman Marc Dutroux, whose confession led police to the bodies of the two dead girls, admitted he kidnapped two other missing teenaged girls, and a search is underway for their bodies. The search takes place amid suspicions that Dutroux is part of a large European child prostitution and pornography ring. Belgian police can now link Dutroux, who only served 3 years of his rape sentence, to seven child murders and kidnappings which have confounded Belgian investigators since 1989. Dutroux confessed that the two 8-year-old girls starved to death locked in his basement while he served a brief jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Grim Search | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...estate and more. The core duo, what you're paying money to see, is Chan as the eponymous cop from Hong Kong and Michelle Khan as a stern police chief from China. Together they whirl their way through disguises and bluffs in an effort to dismantle a drug ring. The presence of the Supercop's girlfriend, played by Maggie Cheung, allows for some funny misunderstandings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chan's Physical Antics Give 'Supercop' a Scrappy Appeal | 8/6/1996 | See Source »

...pencil, in what seemed to be a young girl's handwriting. Amy: light pink, size 8. Corry: dress. Steph: orange or hunter green--the plan for a spree in Paris, transformed into a haiku of loss. And somewhere lost in the waters too is an unuttered promise, a diamond ring to accompany a proposal to a lover who must now long for the rest of her life. The miasma off the beaches of New York was the cruelest of elements, mixing the memory and desires of the dead with the terror and fears of the living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

That ticking sound you hear is my biological clock. My God, people are getting married! Should I be looking at ring catalogs other than Josten's? Should I start think of what china pattern I should register at Macy...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Peter Pan Grows Up | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...when Riddick Bowe's heavyweight bout became an audience-participation slugfest. Bowe was clearly losing to underdog Andrew Golota when Golota punched him below the belt for the fourth time. Bowe hit the canvas, and the referee disqualified Golota. But Bowe's supporters, including promoter Rock Newman, stormed the ring, one of them smashing Golota over the head with a mobile phone. The crowd, smelling blood, started melees of its own, throwing chairs and punches until police regained sufficient control to make 10 arrests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 22, 1996 | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

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