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...problem turns out to be the eponymous sphere the space capsule carries. It's hard and shiny and has a mysterious power to ferret out, and then manifest, the worst fears of those who fall under its spell. If you have, say, a special aversion to sea snakes, then by golly, they're going to start hurling themselves at your face mask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: At The Bottom Of The Sea | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...illegal in D.C. But whatever kind of sex President Clinton did or did not have with Monica Lewinsky, his legal problems don't lie with the morals section of D.C. local law. It's a cluster of federal statutes, lumped under the rubric "obstruction of justice," that could spell trouble. As a former law professor, Clinton would have no problem parsing their legalistic references to "knowingly" doing this and "corruptly" doing that. But in truth they all boil down to a principle so basic in post-Watergate Washington it might as well be printed on the license plates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: The Burden Of Proof | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

With headlines done, the printer spits out a proof of the page. The whole page, every word, every comma, and every quotation mark has to be checked for accuracy. Despite spell-check (which somehow the reporters and editors always forget to use), technology doesn't help with things like that...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Those Who Can't, Usually Do By Five : Putting The Paper, Yourself To Bed | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...only does Microsoft Word have the ability to let you know you can't spell a word, but it puts a red squiggly line under it too! Yeah, that's definitely worth the $200 upgrade price of Office97 (more than $400 for the full version). Whatever...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: TechTalk | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...across the land, the people rejoiced as the wicked witch's spell was broken ... well, perhaps not, but those who feared the coming of Windows 98 have been given a reprieve ? and the folks at Netscape will certainly be rubbing their hands with glee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spanking Microsoft | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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