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...undersea loudspeakers, one sunk off the coast of California near Big Sur, the other near the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A blast from one of these big woofers would be loud enough to be heard in the water for thousands of miles--and loud enough to damage or destroy the hearing of any animal that swam too close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Underwater Boom Boxes | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...also conceivable that the commissioners will reach as high as the Defense Minister, who also happens to be Prime Minister Rabin. If so, he might be compelled to step down. Then Baruch Goldstein would have a hearty laugh from the grave. His aim was to destroy the Middle East peace process, and nothing would accomplish that better than the fall of Yitzhak Rabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hebron's Ugly Truths | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...solipsistic imbalance distorts and threatens to destroy William T. Vollmann's brooding, idiosyncratic novel cycle, Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes. Corruption of native inhabitants by Europeans is the broad theme of this enormously ambitious project, and the first two volumes, The Ice-Shirt, about Greenland, and Fathers and Crows, about the settling of Quebec, presented the author's bleak argument with stinging force. What he argues for is a vision of absolute evil: civilization, native cultures not excepted, is a pestilence, and mankind is a monstrous curse laid upon nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Self-Love in a Cold Climate | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...roommate always blasts that frickin' "I saw the sign" song by frickin' Ace of Face, or Ace of Mace or whatever the group is. I hate it. What should I do? May I please destroy her CD player? Sick of Sucky Song in Stoughtom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's the Sign? | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

Disney's America would also bring a daily horde of 30,000 visitors in 25,000 vehicles, swarming far beyond the Disney enclave to "destroy our battlefield," in the words of Annie Snyder, 72, feisty guardian of the meaning and mood of the national park established along the old Bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Mickey Comes Marching Home | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

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