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Together with small tankers operating out of Venezuela and Panama, which do not observe the embargo, the armada of smugglers have managed to deliver so much contraband fuel that hucksters have set up a bustling business along "gasoline alley" in Port-au-Prince. Out-of-work vendors vie frantically for customers among the wealthy in Land Rovers. Businessmen can even get gas delivered to their door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: To Have and To Have Not | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...pictureplay that runs throughout this merry story of "a modern Stone Age fam-il-ee": newspapers carved in stone; cars powered by feet; prehistoric creatures employed as primitive, parodic versions of contemporary labor-saving devices (dinosaurs are adapted to be lawn mowers, garbage disposals, even a bowling-alley pinsetter). Yes, it's business as it usually was on the old animated TV show. But nothing has been lost -- or worse, inflated out of proportion -- in translating the program to the big screen in a live-action version whose story, believe it or not, takes up white-collar crime, technology-induced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Maverick Is Painless, the Flintstones Is Fun | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

Even as a thesis-writing senior, the governordid not reduce his extracurricular did notinvolvement, playing the lead role in the HastyPudding's senior show, "Right up your Alley...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: At Harvard, Weld Was Scholar, Free Spirit | 4/15/1994 | See Source »

...Bill Weld played Vera Similitude as though shewere a gigantic doll. After this stopped beingamusing (about three minutes), Vera became aliability, since she was substantially lessbelievable than the rest of the characters),"wrote the Crimson reviewer. "Considering thepossibilities of the genre, Right Up the Alley, isa real...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: At Harvard, Weld Was Scholar, Free Spirit | 4/15/1994 | See Source »

Once killed, many tigers join the corpses of leopards, jackals and other animals in a grotesque procession by cart and truck that leads ultimately to a series of tenements along a narrow, filthy alley in Delhi's Sadar Bazaar. In one cluster of squalid apartments, the TRAFFIC sting operation discovered more than a dozen families engaged in the illicit wildlife trade. There the once magnificent animals are skinned, their prized parts dried and packaged, and their bones cleaned and bleached. The skins travel west, often ending up in the homes of wealthy Arabs, while the bones make their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENVIRONMENT: Tigers on the Brink | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

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