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...want to be a Jerusalem cop? As if the tinderbox of Jews and Palestinians living cheek-by-jowl in a city sacred to both isn't volatile enough, Millennial fever is bringing to town all manner of Christian fundamentalist whackos in search of apocalypse. "The major concern of the police is that some of these groups believe they need to create Armageddon in order to bring back Christ," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "They plan to do that by destroying Muslim holy sites in order to provoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerusalem's Millennium Bug | 1/4/1999 | See Source »

Some films deal in plot truth; this one expresses emotional truth, the heart's search for saving wisdom, in some of the most luscious imagery since Malick's last film, the 1978 Days of Heaven. The new movie takes up where Days--and his haunting Badlands of 1973--left off. Each film is a tragedy of small folks with too grand goals; each is narrated by a hick with a dreamy touch of the poetic; each sets its tiny humans against Nature in ferocious rhapsody. The Thin Red Line begins with an island idyll, and to Private Witt (Jim Caviezel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ho, Ho (Well, No) | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...waste time trolling all the online auction houses for a chance to acquire your next Beanie Baby, when a website will notify you via e-mail that the next pink bear is about to go on the block? In addition to this service, www.biddersedge.com will simultaneously search listings at several auction sites to find sales of items you want and then link you right to them. Every major auction site, including OnSale and eBay, is covered. Now all you have to worry about is overbidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Dec. 28, 1998 | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

Although Richard Branson and his team have avoided the ignominy of aborting their balloon flight because of Chinese territorial sensitivity, they're not home free by any stretch. The crew of the ICO Global hot-air balloon is now wafting over Tibet in search of a fast draft that will carry them swiftly eastward -- and out of Chinese airspace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Branson Balloonists Have Need for Speed | 12/22/1998 | See Source »

...OPPOSITE OF SEX A 16-year-old tramp seduces her gay half brother's lover, says she's pregnant and steals $10,000. Don Roos' Seven Characters in Search of a Spanking is pure modern romance: anguished, raunchy, caring. Praise be the entire cast and, what the heck, a Nobel Prize to Lisa Kudrow as a twisted spinster looking for love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Best of 1998 Cinema | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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