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...aircraft passed over the Greek island of Milos, a well-dressed young man rose from his seat near the front of the plane, drew a pistol from a plastic bag and pointed it at crew members who were distributing newspapers and magazines. Another man, seated in the rear section, jumped into the aisle and shouted, "Don't move!" In the cockpit, a third man shoved the barrel of a pistol against the captain's head. The terrorists in the cabin instructed all passengers to surrender their passports. One of the men was particularly rough. "He was pulling people's papers...
...taste and smell. Preparation instructions run on for five pages, requiring that "the blended fruitcake batter, sufficient to yield the specified weight, shall then be deposited into cans with liners and disks" and baked at not more than 375° or steamed "to meet the end requirements of 3.5," another section of MIL-F-14499F...
...disagrees. "The highest court in New York," he says, "has created a legal fiction." In fact, the New York decision is not unique; 13 other states, by statute or court ruling, recognize a spousal property interest in a professional degree. But, asks Harry Tindall, chairman of the family-law section of the state bar of Texas, "if a college professor has tenure, how do you quantify that? Will the New York ruling apply to a plumber's license...
...presenting herself as tough, combative and above all principled. Many critics, among them former friends, accused her of having a higher regard for her reputation than for the literal truth: revisionists have presented detailed arguments that Hellman distorted or invented stories in her autobiographies, most notably in the section of Pentimento that was adapted as the movie Julia. Political enemies regarded her as an all but unrepentant Communist, although she denied having formally belonged to the party; to the end (she died in 1984), she prided herself on having been branded a "premature anti-Fascist" and sniped at those...
When TIME's Nation section first began working on this week's cover story, which examines the crisis in liability Insurance, it intended to focus on America's courts. Says Nation Editor Walter Isaacson, who oversaw the project: "We were planning to look at the sweepstakes-size jury awards that were being handed out in personal-injury cases. But we kept running into horror stories about manufacturers, doctors, lawyers, peace marchers, transit systems, municipal beaches, even whole towns that were having trouble getting insurance. So we decided to concentrate on the insurance crisis and look at all the causes, including...