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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, luck ran out when he spotted several armed Somalis firing rocket-propelled grenades at his Black Hawk attack helicopter. Turning the craft broadside to give his gunners a bet- ter shot, Wolcott became a perfect target. A grenade exploded into the side of the chopper. "Super six-one is going down," he yelled into his headset, "Six-one is going in." Those would be his last words. The crash of Wolcott's Black Hawk transformed what had been planned as a textbook operation to decapitate Somalia's most powerful warlord into the longest sustained fire fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid Disaster, Amazing Valor | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...said. "I tried to drink water. My insides felt like California during the earthquake." But somehow as she zipped past red barns and sailed over moose and lynx paths down a sun-striped highway of snow, Roffe-Steinrotter summoned Olympian reserves. First in line among 56 skiers in the super-G, a cross between a downhill and a giant-slalom course, she had no one else's mistakes to guide her. "It's one day, one hill, 1 1/2 minutes," she told herself, "and whoever shakes and bakes the best is going to get the gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKIING: Schuuuusss! | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...first American woman to win an Olympic Alpine ski race in a decade. It was the second surprise victory of the week for the U.S. Her countryman Tommy Moe had blasted off with a gilded glide in the downhill and followed with a silver medal in the men's super-G. "I've skied my butt off," said Moe, a square- jawed, square-talking Alaskan. "Now it's paying off." On Saturday Americans struck ore again with a silver in the women's downhill for the irrepressible Idaho daredevil Picabo Street. "I skied like a dirtbag," she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKIING: Schuuuusss! | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...running to your friendly dining hall employee about acquiring some exotic, super-sweetened cereal. HDHS is supplied by a limited number of vendors who carry only certain cereal brandnames. Chocolate coated Frosted Sugar Bombs are out of the question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salad Days | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...good and smashed from joy. But forget that for now. Let me tell you about this fountain I saw once a long time ago in Rome. I'm almost sure we could put . something like that up in Sarajevo, over by the cathedral, because it would really look super there." And then we continued talking about the fountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under the Gun in Sarajevo | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

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