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...that history will eventually render on his rule. But the fact that Xiao Rong revealed news of her father's infirmity just before the Jan. 31 celebration of the Chinese New Year, when the nation is traditionally afforded a rare public glimpse of the man, seemed primarily intended to signal something the world has been anxious to know: the time remaining until the day Deng must "go to meet Marx," as he once put it, is short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight of A Titan | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

Researchers have long worked to figure out ways to boost the immune system to fight the virus, but Shaw thinks that their results signal researchers to change that approach and others...

Author: By Kris J. Thiessen, | Title: Studies Change Common Theories on AIDS | 1/13/1995 | See Source »

...their father bought them the CD-ROM game Front Page Sports Baseball '94, by Sierra Online. The game, which the boys opened Christmas Eve, couldn't be installed properly. Nick says he called Sierra's hot line "for five hours, once every five minutes" and kept getting a busy signal. Finally, unable to determine whether the fault was in the program or in the computer, they returned the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ho, Ho, Ho, Crash! | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...unforgettable feast in my calendar." It was the birthday of the playwright's beloved father Thomas, whose early, lonely death would scar young John for life. On May 8, 1956, in London, Osborne's play Look Back in Anger had its premiere -- a seismic shock that seemed to signal the birth of a new urgency and the death of the reigning theatrical gentility. "When I saw Look Back in Anger," said John Gielgud, a star of the old school, "I thought my number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Angry Man: John Osborne (1929-1994) | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...post-cold war era is to reinvent its role by fighting such new threats as terrorism, nuclear proliferation and organized crime. So far, the agency has scored some successes. Before the Persian Gulf War, intelligence provided by CIA spies prevented some 120 terrorists from launching attacks, say agency officials. Signal intercepts, along with CIA informants in China, have alerted U.S. officials to chemical weapons-related shipments the Beijing government has tried to make to Iran. The agency has also succeeded in placing agents in the Cali drug cartel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Spy for the Job | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

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