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Because eyewitness accounts indicate that Button was in control of the plane for most of its journey, his disappearance has sparked some wild theories. Among them: that he was planning to drop the 500-lb. bombs he was carrying (which the Air Force believes were not armed) on the Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DESTINATION UNKNOWN | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

You'd think Harvard students would know better than to think such thoughts. If anyone in America should appreciate the community and the way it shapes and rewards individuals, Harvard students should. We did not get here as rugged individuals beating our way through the wild. Most of us came...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Self-Made at Harvard | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

Reinventing government was once a way to streamline costs, but now conservatives have used the push for sound finance to mask their ideology. Latent behind the rhetoric of efficiency and opportunity that makes up the case for privatization lies an ideology of rugged individualism that is encapsulated by the free...

Author: By Thomas C. Rollins, | Title: Nothing Learned from the Depression | 3/7/1997 | See Source »

Diogenes was that kind of guy, and the Cynics were that kind of folk. It is crucial to understand, though, that the Cynics, as crude as they were (Diogenes was found masturbating in the marketplace), were not immoral. The Cynics practiced a rugged morality, despising the easy life, greed, hatred...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: In Praise of the Doggy Life | 2/25/1997 | See Source »

Long before there were aerobics classes and juice bars, there was Jack LaLanne. His California health spa (started in 1936) was the country's first, and on his TV program, which aired from 1952 until 1986, he was a buoyant evangelist for fitness. At 60 he swam, handcuffed, 1 1/2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 27, 1997 | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

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