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...shows no signs of a missile blast. Salinger has also made much of a photograph, published in France by the magazine Paris Match, which was taken on the outdoor deck of a Long Island restaurant on the evening of the crash, which shows a bright blip in the evening sky. A missile? But reporters and federal investigators determined that the picture was taken facing north, away from the sea where the plane eventually fell. Above all, the exasperated federal agents say, the friendly fire theory would require a conspiracy in which hundreds of sailors, flyers, Navy divers and government officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOT IN THE DARK? | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...that sounds like you, take heart. By at least one measure, foreign stocks have rarely been so cheap. If you choose to diversify now, you won't have to buy into sky-high markets like those in the U.S., though you'll want to be careful because some foreign markets, such as Sweden, Ireland and Switzerland, have risen sharply and are on the high side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS IT TIME TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY? | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

Leonardo da Vinci The natural mysteries that fascinated Leonardo--from why the sky is blue to why the moon shines--serve as the framework for this wonderful scientific biography. ($35; Corbis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOFTWARE | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...yearning. The author is powerfully drawn to this hard country, this broad and nearly featureless landscape, and the reader does not doubt that had Raban been born in 1880, he would have found himself in Montana by 1908, driving fence posts with aching city shoulders and checking the sky hopefully for rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: BIG HARD SKY | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

...Culkin giving Joe Pesci a splitting headache. It also suggests another fantasy: the family setting off for the local movieplex and seeing a film together instead of having to go to two different features, one for Mom and Dad, the other for the kids. Surely, somewhere under the holiday sky, there must be a film the whole family can stand. Mustn't there? Surely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BOUNTY OF HOLIDAY TREATS | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

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