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...literature. Will the first earthly Mars walker who greets these familiar objects on site at Ares Vallis be likely to record for posterity the query "Dr. Boo-Boo, I presume"? Is this a failure of our educational system? Did the ingenious individuals who are involved in this project not avail themselves of the liberal-arts curriculums at their distinguished universities? Or has the dumbing-down process finally reduced communication on such topics to the level of a cartoon mentality? COLIN JOHNSON Sandy, Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1997 | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...these movies, Stewart's charm is of no avail. He is put-upon and victimized. In The Man from Laramie, his brother is killed, his wagon burned, his mules slaughtered. He is lassoed and dragged through a campfire. His right hand is held down while a sadist shoots a bullet through it. His aw-shucks tentativeness turns to high-pitched sputterings. His thin frame is shaken with the outsize energies of hysteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAMES STEWART: TWO SIDES OF INNOCENCE | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

Jachym scored two more goals in overtime. Harvard pulled within one when freshman Alan Bengtzen scored with two minutes remaining. The Crimson brought Dupuis out of net into and into the field for the final seconds in a desperate charge to the Hartford net, but it was to no avail...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: Men's Soccer Blasts Into NCAAs | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Harbury then returned to Washington to push for sanctions against the Guatemalan government, but to no avail. During another hunger strike in Washington, D.C. in 1995, Rep. Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.) told Harbury that a Guatemalan General on the CIA's payroll ordered Everardo's execution...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Harbury Speaks About Husband, Guatemala | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

...Clinton, in the usual spray of condolences, may have hit the mark when he called the suicides "so isolated that they can create a world for themselves that may justify that kind of thing." Create it they had. And each had taken his hemlock, to a degree, independently, to avail themselves of a rare opportunity to attain the afterlife. "We fully desire, expect, and look forward to boarding a spacecraft from the Next Level very soon (in our physical bodies)," reads the "Heaven's Gate" website. "Hale-Bopp's approach is the "marker' we've been waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open Window | 3/27/1997 | See Source »

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