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Experts caution too that what security measures do exist here drape passengers in an illusion of safety. The reality is that U.S. airports have no systematic way of screening for explosives that a terrorist might want to sneak aboard an aircraft. Metal detectors might miss plastics or liquids used to assemble a bomb, as might bored, poorly paid and poorly trained operators of X-ray machines. At some U.S. airports, including Kennedy, checked-in luggage for international flights is sniffed by specially trained dogs or scanned by electronic vapor-particle detectors that can locate explosives. But if the explosives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERROR ON FLIGHT 800: NO BARRIER TO MAYHEM | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

Okay, so what do I do? Do I just sit back, relax, let old age sneak up behind me and KAPOW!, I'm watching "Matlock?" Do I fight it by regression--dust off my old G.I. Joes and restart the never-ending combat with Cobra? Do I run to stay in place, or as John Cougar Mellencamp put it, "hold on to 16 as long...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Peter Pan Grows Up | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

...started off with promise and went downhill from there. Along the way, there was heartbreak coupled with disappointment. But in the end, the 1995 Harvard football season ended in glorious fashion with a thrilling win over Yale, providing a sneak preview into what could be a bright future...

Author: By Ed Perez-giz, | Title: The Game Heals All | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...Could Talk, the story of unplanned pregnancies in the 1950s, '70s and '90s. Moore produced the series, and Cher's episode is her directorial debut. "I loved it. It was the coolest thing since men," says Cher. "But it was much more exhausting than I thought. I had to sneak away to pee." Cher also plays a doctor who gets shot, which she didn't like as much. "I was afraid of the squibs [the fake bullets]," she says. Let's hope the critics hold their fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 20, 1996 | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

TWISTER (opens May 10). Second-unit ingenuity spurs a destructo-fest, as naughty tornados send cars crashing and rip the roofs off barns. One suspects that, as a movie monster, this killer twister may be a dud: it has no personality and can't sneak up on you. But with the heft of Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton and Jan de Bont (Speed) behind it, Twister could suck hot air and still gross a quick $100 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY THIS SUMMER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

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