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Nothing symbolizes this nation's true grit better than the mountain retreat of Nakfa. There the near defeated rebel troops hewed out miles of rock trenches with bayonets and survived for 10 years beneath the shelling of the Ethiopian army. It still takes 10 hours in a four-wheel to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa Rising | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

The power ballad emerged out of the male rock of the '70s, from the heavy metal of Alice Cooper to the classic rock of Styx. The first power ballads to make it big in the '80s were hits like "Faithfully" (1983) by the five-man band Journey. But the genre...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: A Time Before Nirvana | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

It had taken more than three years to plumb that bottom. Long after the 1929 stock-market crash filled Wall Street with eerily silent crowds gaping in stunned apprehension, President Herbert Hoover was still clinging to the deeply held--and widely shared--belief that good old rugged individualism, with just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1929-1939 Despair: Taking Care of Our Own: The New Deal | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Probably more than any of Roosevelt's social programs, it was the war that ultimately wrenched America free from the Depression. But the apparent success of the New Deal raised the softer, more charitable side of the national psyche to an ascendancy over reliance on rugged individualism. Big Government would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1929-1939 Despair: Taking Care of Our Own: The New Deal | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

By the time lawmen arrived in Murphy, however, Rudolph had stopped at the local grocery to stock up on raisins, trail mix and eight packs of flashlight batteries. Then, apparently on foot, he vanished, leading more than 100 federal agents and local officers on a manhunt across rugged terrain right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Manhunt | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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