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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night of last Oct. 25, Smith let her burgundy 1990 Mazda Protege slide down the boat ramp at the lake with her boys inside, strapped into their car seats. As she ran up the ramp, the 23-year-old "good mother," as her friends described her, covered her ears so as not to hear the car splash into the water, nor, perhaps, the cries of her children. She then claimed a black man had carjacked her and taken the boys with him, setting off a nationwide manhunt and a string of public appearances by Smith that ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELEGY FOR LOST BOYS | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

...market player to explain the ups and downs, and the janitor at the stock exchange is also busy, they have two choices. The first is to bring Wall Street into it, otherwise known as the market, as in "Wall Street has not been particularly worried about the dollar's slide" (the Times, April 8), or "the market was succumbing to the correction that some economists had been anticipating" (the Journal, April 12). Wall Street and the market are constantly fretting, shrugging off bad news, cheering good news and even looking forward to vacations, as it did a couple of months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOES ANYONE HAVE A CLUE? | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...Union, South Carolina, a town that last October earned its own pin on the map of American crime, the rage at Susan Smith's actions has gradually given way to more complex emotions. People are still appalled by the way she let her Mazda slide off a boat ramp into the waters of John D. Long Lake with her young sons Michael and Alex strapped into their car seats. They are still outraged at the ease with which she convinced the world that she was the grieving victim of a dark-skinned stranger. But the cries for the death penalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEX, BETRAYAL AND MURDER | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

...sash over the toilet seat? To enjoy a comfortable, momentary change of perspective--a vacation as the equivalent of rolling over in one's sleep? Or to lose oneself? To pass through distance into some new place where the eyes become capable, for a moment, of a fresh transparency. Slide into the Pleistocene: under a thorn tree in Masai Mara, say, a cheetah tears at the Thomson's gazelle it has nailed for lunch. All around in a semicircle, the minibuses sprout glaring bwanas from their sunroofs. The onion peels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I CAME, I SAW, I SPOILED EVERYTHING | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

...details of the movie are striking. The vest always worn by flight director Kranz is delivered to him just before launch, complete with the mission emblem attached to the front pocket. The return trajectory is calculated using a slide rule. The baseball caps given to the astronauts aboard the recovery ship are exactly like the ones that were really worn by the returning spacemen...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Hanks Shines in Apollo 13 | 7/7/1995 | See Source »

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