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...treated to a thrilling game won by the Liberty, 65-63, on two free throws by Rebecca Lobo in the last seconds. Lobo may be the biggest star in the W.N.B.A., but she's not the only one. In Phoenix, there's Australian Michele Timms, the guard known as Tank Girl for her spiked blond hair and aggressive play. And there's Lisa Leslie, the Wilhelmina model who plays center for the Sparks. And Sheryl Swoopes, who's expected to join the Houston Comets soon, now that she has given birth to a boy named Jordan after youknowwho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE N.B.A.'S SISTER ACT | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

HIID, a Harvard think tank that aids foreign countries in their economic development, has been embroiled in controversy since June when the U.S. government accused two institute officials who worked on projects in Russia of misconduct...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: University To Review HIID's Operations | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: In the campaign finance hearings' first long look at the other side of the aisle, eager Democrats spent the day grilling Benton Becker, lawyer for Hong Kong real estate developer Ambrous Tung Young. Becker readily described how erstwhile GOP think tank The National Policy Forum was used to funnel campaign donations from Hong Kong real estate developer Young and other foreign nationals to state GOP organizations. Becker maintained today that the RNC was well aware at the time that the money originated from a foreign company, making Young's donations illegal under US law. (The money was finally returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everybody Does It | 7/23/1997 | See Source »

Credit CEO Chris Galvin, the founder's grandson, who re-engineered the company. Motorola still has some vulnerability. The firm counts on tech-heavy businesses that may tank if spending by telecom firms softens. But Galvin has convinced Wall Street that he can keep revenues growing. Motorola stock hit a new high of $86 last week, and investors snapped up $800 million worth of bonds for Iridium, an ambitious Motorola-backed satellite project. Now that's mobile electronics. Grandpa would surely approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BIZ WATCH Jul 21, 1997 | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...will focus on a number of possibilities, ranging from mechanical failure to the remote possibility a meteor sparked the explosion. Hall told CNN Sunday: "A couple of those will try to replicate as closely as possible TWA 800. We'll be trying to look at the temperatures in that tank as they go to the altitude that the explosion occurred at." Investigators believe hot weather and heavily worked engines may have been critical factors in the TWA disaster, which was similar to the sudden explosion of a Boeing 737 in the Philippines in 1990. In both situations, the jets were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repeating TWA Flight 800 | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

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