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...party by 2-to-1--and this being the '90s, the decade when women no longer know how to cook and clean, and men are wedded to bachelorhood--the few men in attendance were the only ones who knew how to do much more than boil water...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Homeward Bound | 11/24/1993 | See Source »

...Wisconsin, to turn the city's drinking water into a bilious brew, sickening nearly half the population and killing one person -- and a few weeks ago, the same bug turned up again during a routine test. In July residents in the Chelsea section of New York City had to boil their water to kill potentially dangerous bacteria. Just three weeks ago, health officials tacked warnings on 71 houses in Gastonia, North Carolina, advising people that an industrial chemical had been detected in their wells at levels many times higher than what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toxins on Tap | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

...Major is also right in pegging Clinton's motives as purely political. The last several weeks have been a costly learning experience for Clinton. The lesson learned: when you put foreign policy on the back burner, it has a tendency to boil over...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Teetering at the Brink in Somalia | 10/20/1993 | See Source »

Without the right, the political discourse on Harvard's campus would be one of the liberals, by the liberals and for the liberals (if it isn't that already). Campus discussions of important issues would boil down to huge, politically-correct masturbatory sessions, with dialogues like this...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Conservatives Need to Be Heard | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...conspiracy sponsored by a state apparatus, but loosely organized, grass- roots militants who use similar terrorist methods and get money and weapons from the same like-minded sources. Unlike the Palestinian and Shi'ite revolutionaries of the 1970s and '80s, these disparate cells of angry young men seem to boil up from the broad opposition growing in the largely undemocratic countries of the region, in a self-proclaimed war to force pure, undiluted Islamic law on the societies that have failed them. When that violence spills over into the U.S., it is usually aimed at punishing Washington's support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dark Side Of Islam | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

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