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Yesterday's show inaugurated a series of "Beverly Hills" episodes in which Kelly, played by actress Jennifer Garth, is obsessed with making herself thin by taking diet pills...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Harvard Group Works With 90210 Producers | 3/25/1993 | See Source »

...been the garage's second parking level, shining flashlights on the mangled remains of cars and trucks that had been blown to bits. "Hey, look at this," said an agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Joseph Hanlin, a bomb expert from ATF, picked up a thin, charred, twisted bit of metal about 18 in. long. "This is something that we need to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Case of Dumb Luck | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

Radiologists can often solve the problem. Using their skill with X-ray imaging to guide them, they make a needle puncture into a vein in the groin and thread a very thin tube to the testes. The doctors then seal off the varicose veins with coils or chemicals that are sent through the tube. Johns Hopkins researchers reported that of 71 couples in which the man had had the procedure and his partner no infertility treatment, 60% of the women got pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoiding Unkind Cuts | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

Thankfully, his nefarious scheme was foiled by the contractors. The walls are thin enough so that conversations with neighbors are never a problem. (In fact, they're often involuntary.) And whatever sounds the walls stop, the pipes pick up and transmit through the entire house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine House | 3/13/1993 | See Source »

...particularly poignant with the family ranchers, not the King Ranch of almost 1 million oil- rich Texas acres or the Mormon church's Deseret Ranch in Florida, which runs 34,000 head of cattle. The big combines will survive. But the little guys are in jeopardy, a thin denim line of about 250,000 from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, leasing in varying amounts about 280 million acres of mountain and high desert range from the U.S. government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Fence Us In | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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