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KEITH JACOBSON, A NEBRASKA FARMER, RECEIVED A letter from the "American Hedonist Society" in 1985 bidding him to join the organization. In fact, the society was a sting operation of the Federal Government, which continued to offer Jacobson sexually explicit material. Jacobson resisted for 26 months, then finally ordered a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Years in the Life of An Unwary Innocent | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

Tuition revenues usually go into general funds, which pay for everything from staff salaries to cutting the grass. To keep high-paying industries from plucking off promising science talent, universities must provide laboratories furnished with state-of-the-art equipment. To achieve prestige, many schools engage in bidding wars for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Does Your Tuition Go? | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Shaking Felix's hand is like putting on a tight leather glove. His fingers are short, thick, powerful, with the nails trimmed close. Fingertips are black with polish, calloused, and scuffed like rough-cut pine. The skin is cracked splintered, not just on the tips but down the finger to...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: Fixing Shoes the Old Fashioned Way | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

Nestle outfought Italy's Agnelli family last week in a trans-European bidding battle over Source Perrier of France -- but the victory may get the Swiss food giant into, well, hot water. Suspecting a violation of European Community competition rules, the E.C. Mergers Task Force in Brussels has opened an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takeovers: Troubled Waters? | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

Intelligence experts fear that many terrorists have been able to replace Soviet financing with money from Iran, which is said to be backing undercover extremists from Algeria to Thailand -- while simultaneously bidding for better official relations with the West. A rising fear is that Tehran may seek to capitalize on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Wanted: a New Hideout | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

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