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...implausible that Cancer Man (whom the studio calls Cigarette-Smoking Man, possibly to avoid offending tobacco companies--another hot Web debate) fathered several of the characters on the show, including Mulder himself. Being a hard-core "noromo" (parlance for "no romancer," someone who believes the show's UST, or unresolved sexual tension, is the key to its vitality), I have also flamed "shippers" ("relationshippers," those who want Mulder and Scully to get it on in the film) with now embarrassing vituperations, such as, "Why don't you just go get the lame job you're destined for at the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An X-Phile Confesses | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...actually began more than , a year ago, when U.S. officials heard a disquieting report from Kazakh officials. The collapse of the Soviet Union, they said, had stranded about 1,300 lbs. of uranium at the sprawling Ulba Metallurgical Plant on the windswept steppes, 20 miles outside the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk. The material had been sent to the plant in the 1970s to be made into fuel rods for Soviet naval vessels. While the Soviets had abandoned it as their union collapsed in 1991, it remained quite a prize: there was enough nuclear material there to spawn as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Control: Sapphire's Hot Glow | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...UST Public Affairs, Inc. (tobacco/spirits lobbyist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Payback Time | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...minutes later, a Soviet flyer radioed that the 747 was just short of that altitude, at 10,000 meters (33,300 ft.). About the same time, Japanese radar operators in Hokkaido noted that, although Flight 007 had ust reported its position as 115 miles south of Hokkaido, they found no corresponding radar blip there. They did spot one 115 miles north of the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atrocity In the Skies: KAL Flight 007 Shot Down by the Soviets | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...many savers the lure of 50% interest rates was almost irresistible. In ust a few days, an estimated 10,000 customers signed up for the A.S.C.s at Dime Savings Bank of New York, which was offering interest rates of up to 18% plus an up-front cash bonus of $100 or more. Jefferson Federal Savings and Loan Association in Washington, D.C., received the $1 million it had decided to accept under the new plan in 1½% days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Savings Scramble | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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