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The phone rang in the command center: No one is coming out. All Coulson could do was watch, and think about the children: "The strongest instinct is a mother's instinct for a child." Then word came from Waco that one or two people had been spotted outside the building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Branch Davidians: Oh, My God, They're Killing Themselves! | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

Up in a back room in her gas mask, Ruth Riddle was clutching her Bible when she felt the heat rising around her. She worried that her yellow plastic sandals might melt, so she changed into running shoes and looked for a way out. She jumped down from a hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Branch Davidians: Oh, My God, They're Killing Themselves! | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

Dinosaurs probably weren't cold-blooded either. They could move along briskly, even in cool weather; some lived above the Arctic Circle, where the sun never rises in winter. Rather than a uniform dull green, they could easily have been striped, spotted and brilliantly colored. Even the idea that all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book on Dinosaurs | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

In October 1989 a group of young black men in the Wisconsin town of Kenosha saw Mississippi Burning, the film about Ku Klux Klan terror in the early 1960s. As they left the theater, one of the blacks, Todd Mitchell, spotted a 14-year-old white youth named Gregory Riddick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Hate Makes a Fist | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

V. Candidatus Perpetuus--This species has a chameleon-like power to blend in almost anywhere. These creatures have adapted a mandibular structure similar to that of the remora--they have lips able to get a tenacious grip on the rear-end of any authority figure in an instant. The Undergraduate...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: A New Cambridge Taxonomy | 4/24/1993 | See Source »

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