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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...depressed by the death of his father and the recent breakup of his marriage. What's clear is that he had a history of alcohol and drug abuse, and died with a .045 blood-alcohol content, just a smidgen above the legal limit for pilots. His blood also showed trace amounts of cocaine. Relatives said Corder might have had publicity in mind because he once talked admiringly of Mathias Rust's 1987 landing in Red Square. A brother reportedly was told of a suicide plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITE HOUSE CRASH . . . RADAR, BUT NO HEADS UP | 9/13/1994 | See Source »

...again, off-again dioxin scare is, well, on-again. An Environmental Protection Agency report says the chemical, in all likelihood, causes cancer and even in trace amounts it may put the immune, reproductive and developmental systems at risk. "We've gone through a period in which the public has pooh-poohed other potential dangers," says TIME senior editor Charles Alexander. "People have said we've over-reacted to alar and radon and asbestos. This report goes against that trend. It says that dioxin really is dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEFORE YOU BUY THAT HOME IN LOVE CANAL . . . | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...just Vietnam and Watergate but rather the fateful turn liberal activism took with Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. Not content with the great middle-class programs like Medicare, Johnson launched a War on Poverty that has since poured trillions down a vast federal sinkhole, leaving little trace -- indeed coinciding with a dramatic rise in crime, homelessness and deviancy of every sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jones Beach and the Decline of Liberalism | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...Aggressively dressed in a long, full, Out of Africa skirt," Alexander writes at one point, she set out to trace her poet's imaginings. Mighty string-pulling brought a rare approval from the Chinese to visit Shangdu, in military territory 200 miles north of Beijing. This was the summer capitol -- pleasure dome is a fair description -- established by Kublai (1215-1294), grandson of Genghis Khan, and a personage who, according to Marco Polo, "always rides on the back of four elephants, in a very handsome shelter of wood, covered inside with cloth of beaten gold and outside with lion skins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Coleridge Baedeker | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...book gives a detailed account of the family's anti-Semitism and its attachment to Hitler. Even after the war, Wolfgang's mother Winifred said she longed to see the Fuhrer come through the door again. To his credit, Wolfgang ! has banished any trace of anti-Jewish bias from the festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Die Wagneren: A True-Life Opera | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

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