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...what did the conflict accomplish? Even U.S. military officials recognized that their campaign could not wipe out Iraq's stores of chemical and biological agents. With U.N. inspectors gone, Saddam might speed development of weapons of mass destruction. No one doubted that when the smoke cleared, we would be asking the same nagging questions: When will Saddam fall? What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Good Did It Do? | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...themselves to sleep over rebuffs, both physical and emotional, suffered at the hands of their peers. Some of the tears--as well as the acts of cruelty that provoke them--are as inevitable and as fleeting as growing pains. And parents want to believe their love can wipe away the rest. But a series of recent books has roiled the waters and caused parents to wonder anew whether they can ward off the ill effects of getting in with "the wrong crowd"--or becoming an outcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents' Guide: Friends Matter | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...layer of insulation. Equally threatening is the intense heat of impact, which would instantly vaporize the meteoroid and convert it to an ionized gas, or plasma, that would shock the spacecraft with an electrostatic charge. "If that charge got into some of your data circuitry," Riegler says, "it could wipe out data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meteor Alert | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...calories from breakfast and I was getting totally sweaty, like, just totally gross, and surprise! In comes my Ec. TF, who is not only my TF but also totally hot. I totally didn't know what to do and my face flushed even more and I tried to, like, wipe off with my T-shirt but this just messed up my mascara and made things worse. Totally humiliated, because he was obviously one of those people who looks *good* when he sweats, I decided just to suck up my pride and say hi when he passed. But, just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oh My God--I'm Sooo Embarrassed!!! | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

Sorry to point this out. You're probably pausing right about now to wipe a tear from your Armani suit and thinking it's pretty much curtains for the counterculture. Maybe you're thinking that you were but a moment's sunlight fading in the grass, and epochs like the 1960s are rare in human history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Counterculture | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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