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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cottage. As she watched the sun peeking over the Atlantic, she saw that the glassy calm of the ocean during the past day and a half had disintegrated. In its place were "a lot of choppy, wind-driven waves." Unsettled by the sight, she returned home and phoned her sister Peg. Even before Judy could finish her description, Peg broke in to say she understood. "She thinks it's a sign of all the distressed souls still out there," says Judy. "The ones who were lost in the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

...played sports with one victim and the brother of a second, and shared a class with a third, asked to describe them, can only summon up, "They were cool." Teenagers lack the public vocabulary for multiple death and massive sorrow. With some exceptions. "I feel like hell," snapped the sister of one victim. "How am I supposed to feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800: SNUFFED OUT WHILE EMBRACING THE WORLD | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

STEVE WULF, who came to us from our sister publication Sports Illustrated, is in effect TIME's coach this summer--organizing our team coverage of the centennial Olympic Games and, this week, writing our lead story about the opening ceremonies. Wulf cares about how sports relate to the culture, to entertainment, to how people express themselves. But he also focuses in on the nuts and bolts of many events; while in Atlanta he will cover baseball, basketball and field hockey. "I expect that these games will be terrific," he says. "At a certain point, track and field will take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Jul. 29, 1996 | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

...many child actors who unfortunately didn't have childhoods. So the last thing we wanted to do was push our children into acting. We felt that if Gwyneth had talent and wanted a career, eventually it would find her and she would find it." So Gwyneth and her younger sister and brother grew up relatively normally, in Los Angeles and, from the time Gwyneth was 11, in Manhattan, where she attended the exclusive Spence School. But in their summers at Williamstown, Gwyneth showed where her heart was. She did cabaret numbers when she was seven or eight and, Danner remembers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A TOUCH OF CLASS | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

...both girls were in fact known to be troubled--Alicia, in particular, had struggled with depression and drugs--and both had received some counseling. Alicia had run away from home, where she lived with her mother, stepfather and older sister, more than once, and Amber too ran away. According to Amber's father Marty Hernandez, earlier this year the two girls got as far as Santa Monica together and were missing for five days before the police found them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUICIDE'S SHADOW | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

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