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...Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies" by John Hogue (Bement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: World Trade Center Edition | 9/21/2001 | See Source »

...powerful motivator of a school-age child. Students with access to a micro spend more time studying and solving problems. Those who write at their keyboards compose more freely and revise their work more thoroughly. "It's not just a matter of number crunching," argues Arden Bement, a vice president of TRW. "It's a new way of thinking. The kids who don't get indoctrinated to computers by seventh grade are not going to develop the same proficiency." Says Andrew Molnar, computer education specialist at the National Science Foundation: "Power is not distributed evenly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Peering into the Poverty Gap | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

Divorced. Manuel Ycaza, 31, tabasco-tempered Panamanian jockey, whose hell-for-leather racing style has won more than $19 million in purses since 1957; by Linda Bement Ycaza, 27, Miss Universe of 1960; after seven years of marriage, two children; in Mineola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 28, 1969 | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

Born. To Carlos Manuel de Ycaza, 25, terrible-tempered Panama-born jockey who, despite 458 days spent on the ground in rough-riding suspensions since 1957, has won more than $8,000,000 worth of purses, and Linda Bement Ycaza, 21, Miss Universe of 1960, a native of Salt Lake City: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 1, 1963 | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

...stop at nothing-since they had nothing to begin with. At least half were caught with extra added attractions, and what had looked like 36-23-36 was really an unfalsied 23-23-23. From Rangoon's Myint Myint May (Miss Burma) to Utah's Linda Bement (Miss U.S.A.), the girls posed endlessly in the Miami sun, gorged U.S. newspapers with grilled cheese. At week's end, Miss U.S.A. was the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Not Too Near the Water | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

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