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...Harvard social psychologists present a study that shows that more than half of the American people, if given orders to shoot all inhabitants of a Vietnamese village suspected of aiding the enemy, would follow those orders...

Author: By George T. Hill, | Title: Flashback to 1971-'72 | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...that included Markhasev, she pointed out another man. She misidentified the suspect even after all those in the lineup repeated the two variants of the threat she heard on the night Cosby was killed: "Open the door, or I'll kill you," and "Open your door, or I'll shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE FACE OF DEATH | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...more on the eastern slopes of the Natal Drakensberg in South Africa and more than 4,000 in the Tsodilo Hills in northern Botswana. Indeed, the rock art is so plentiful that despite the hundreds of rolls of film donated by the Getty Institute, Coulson can afford to shoot only the best examples. "We skip over images that are either inferior or too recent," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: ETCHED IN STONE | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...novels have influenced U2 front man BONO, embodies a malign force that brings down civilization. Symbolizing the band's dim view of a rampant consumer culture (but they will happily sell you a CD!), frail Burroughs pushes a shopping cart out of the dead city. The band hopes to shoot two more videos during its PopMart tour in the U.S., says manager Paul McGuinness. Commuters, beware! The end is nigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 2, 1997 | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...more than that. He was a great formal painter with (almost literally, one might say) an eagle eye. To create his great work The Birds of America, four volumes showing 497 species, life-size and engraved in full color on the largest sheets of paper then available, he would shoot each bird and wire up its corpse on a board in an attitude that seemed both aesthetically pleasing and full of information: the bird became a sketch for its own monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAKING IT STRAIGHT | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

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