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...Welch provided toys for the kids. The new-model Batmobile can get ultraslim (fast!) and slip through the narrowest crevice. The Penguin's parasol becomes an Umbrella-Copter, spiriting him out of the trouble he loves to make. At the end he sends his commando squadron of penguins to destroy the city: tuxedoed birds wearing embossed shields, tiny helmets and missiles with candy-cane stripes ( it is Christmas) on their backs. Some of the penguins were real, some were robot puppets, some were little people in costume and others were computer generated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battier and Better | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...unimaginable has since come to pass, and now the Crimea is at the center of a bitter territorial row between Russia and Ukraine that threatens to destroy the fragile Commonwealth of Independent States and make enemies out of two nuclear-armed nations. In the Crimean capital of Simferopol, ethnic Russians gather daily outside the local parliament building to accuse Ukrainian leaders of disregard for their right to self-determination. In the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, 400 miles away, thousands have converged in recent weeks to protest Moscow's "imperialist" designs on the Crimea, which is part of Ukraine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready To Cast Off | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

...uses a heat- resistant enzyme derived from a bacterium native to Yellowstone hot springs. Upward of nearly $100 billion of annual economic activity is generated at this intersection of biotechnology and biological diversity. The potential is staggering, and it is easily sustainable because it is usually not necessary to destroy the biological resource to benefit from the particular desired molecule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Things Happen in Rio | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

Yadao's diminutive frame and athletic success destroy that myth...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: She's No James Dean | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...list of eight gay employees that an openly gay fema analyst had been pressured to provide in exchange for a security clearance. In April FEMA promised that the names would stay locked in a vault. But when Representative Barney Frank threatened to hold hearings if FEMA did not destroy the list, Stickney relented, calling the list "abhorrent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shredder, Please | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

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