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Tamagotchi, the latest toy craze in Japan, arrived last week in a Brink's truck at Manhattan's FAO Schwarz. The egg-shaped pet chick has a virtual life right on a key chain, where it's hatched, lives and dies--virtually. When it beeps, the owner is supposed to pet it by pressing its buttons. The chick even leaves virtual droppings to be cleaned up. It sells on Japan's black market for $500, but the suggested U.S. retail price is $15. The profits are real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BIZ WATCH: May 12, 1997 | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...order, and the delivery driver didn't get a good look at him. Also Friday, jurors saw a videotape from a McDonald's security camera of Timothy McVeigh holding a fruit pie and checking his watch just before he allegedly walked to a body shop and rented the truck used in the Oklahoma City bombing. But again, the tape was just another piece of circumstantial evidence - not proof that McVeigh bombed the federal building. Says Cole: "While the government has done a masterful job at presenting the evidence at hand, prosecutors have yet to document McVeigh physically making the bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKC Prosecution Could Rest Next Week | 5/9/1997 | See Source »

Although never heavy-handed in their approach, Alex Mack and Sabrina use their heroines' mystical gifts to play out morality tales from week to week. Thanks to a collision with a chemical truck, baseball-cap-wearing Alex Mack (Larisa Oleynik) has acquired, among other talents, the ability to morph into invisible quicksilver. In one episode she falls hard for a seemingly perfect boy. Right before they are to practice a scene from Romeo and Juliet together, she catches him, while in her unseeable incarnation, rejecting the friendship of a nerdy classmate. And of course she breaks up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEWITCHING TEEN HEROINES | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...star is new in Los Angeles, but already the locals know her as the woman who matched Jackie Chan stunt for impossible stunt in Police Story III: Super Cop. And maybe they think that punishing her body for film art--by, say, leaping off the top of a runaway truck to land splat! on the hood of Chan's speeding convertible--is all Michelle Yeoh does. She recalls that on one of her first L.A. photo shoots, "The beautician told me, 'You know, for a stuntwoman you have gorgeous nails.' Well, thank you, but I'm an actress who just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: EVERYBODY SAY YEOH! | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...site, where updates on the situation and calls for reinforcements from other citizens of the Republic of Texas had been posted, was taken down Wednesday afternoon. Apparently responding to McLaren's call, seven heavily armed men carrying Republic of Texas citizenship cards were arrested Wednesday at a truck stop 70 miles from his Davis Mountain hideout. Charged with possession of marijuana, the men were also carrying five semi-automatic rifles, a shotgun, a .45-caliber pistol and several hunting knives. Local officials fear that more secessionists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stasis in Texas | 4/30/1997 | See Source »

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