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...effort to halt the tribal carnage, 3,000 troops of a five-nation West African peacekeeping force began to fan out in besieged Monrovia. Taylor, challenging their legitimacy, vowed to kill them all ... Taylor is unimpressed by outside efforts to calm the civil strife. 'I am not going to roll over and play dead,' he told TIME. 'This is an attempt to rescue Doe. A peacekeeping force means all sides agree. We have not agreed. If we're attacked, the price will be expensive. The world is going to remember.'" Read more at timearchive.com...
...Lake, a natural twelve-mile-long runway. Air Force and North American officials crowded anxiously around loudspeakers relaying Crossfield's radio messages. At 14,000 ft., Scott Crossfield, a World War II Navy pilot and a test pilot for a decade, remarked laconically: "I wish I could do a roll on my way in." (Later he explained that he had restrained himself because "if I'd goofed, it would have looked kind of sour.") Testing his controls with a wide, lazy-S turn, Crossfield, following procedure, jettisoned the X-15's ventral tailfin, which would have interfered with extending...
DESIGN TOUCHSTONE Loudermilk credits the environment for influencing her punkish, rock-'n'-roll style and hopes her clothing will help people bond to the earth. "Nature has more edge than we can ever create," she says. "I want to help people feel a connection to it on a daily basis...
...debate over Illinois's pioneering roll back of the death penalty comes as more and more states are conducting their own reappraisals. In recent years, states from New York and New Jersey to Kansas, Virginia, Kentucky and California, have either enacted a similar moratorium, had certain executions ruled out by the courts or at least started doing comprehensive studies of the death penalty system...
...Chili Peppers “Dani California” Dir. Tony Kaye In their latest video, “Dani California,” the Red Hot Chili Peppers play rock and roll dress-up, mimicking famous televised performances, from Elvis Presley’s early network appearances to Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged session, reaching a climax when the band appears as—surprise!—themselves. Unfortunately, all these changing costumes only remind us that the Chili Peppers have been stuck in the same musical-historical rut for the past 10 years...