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...more family: the Wulfs. Our boys, 11 and 8, watch about 10 hours a week, mostly sports, though occasionally we'll catch them munching on Nickelodeon. (We discourage them from Rugrats, which is admittedly funny but alarmingly disrespectful of adults.) Our three-year-old twin girls are generally too busy playing with each other to watch TV, but they can sometimes be corralled by Barney & Friends or Sesame Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV OR NOT TV | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

Perhaps the hope was always an illusion. After the Siamese-twin government replaced the Vietnamese-installed regime, the chaotic and corrupt new administration accomplished almost nothing except to set up Ranariddh and Hun Sen as competing warlords. The situation became increasingly unstable when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, the other pocket of Cambodian power for 19 years, started to fall apart last year in its hidden jungle exile. First Prime Minister Ranariddh, son of venerable King Sihanouk, started negotiations with the disintegrating guerrilla group, offering jobs in his army, which was far smaller than Second Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAUNTED BY GHOSTS | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

Barnacle Bill: 1=D Yogi: 2=C Casper: 3=B Twin Peaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jul. 21, 1997 | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

Project Viking's major goal was to search for signs of life on Mars. Each of the twin spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and a lander. Slipping into Mars' orbit in June 1976, Viking 1 spent a month shooting detailed pictures of the surface, photos that enabled J.P.L. controllers to choose a safe spot for Viking 1's lander to touch down. On July 20, lander 1 separated from its orbiting mother ship. Using retrorockets, deploying a parachute and finally firing three descent engines, it bumped gently onto a rock-covered slope on the planet's southern hemisphere. Forty-five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAST TIME WE SAW MARS | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...star actresses) would toy with this bumpkin, only to find he had magically restored their emotional virginity. In his private life--which he kept private--Stewart was a responsible grownup, a bachelor until 1949, when he married Gloria McLean. She had two sons from a previous marriage; they had twin daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A WONDERFUL FELLA: JAMES STEWART, 1908-1997 | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

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