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Downs sent a $200 check for a shipment of cosmetics. Instead of the prize, she began getting calls from other telemarketing firms--one in Utah, one in Louisiana and four more in Las Vegas. The firms belonged to a new breed of con artist, those who regularly buy and sell names for their mooch lists, at prices ranging from $10 for an untested "lead" to $200 for the name of someone who has fallen for a whole series of scams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELDERSCAM | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...that have been quietly putting the fashionable buzz words "reinventing government" into practice. Municipal government has long been regarded as the great back-water of American democracy: a world of political patronage and special-interest jockeying in which policy discussions rarely move beyond synchronizing traffic lights. But a new breed of activist mayors, recently hailed by the New Republic as "the Pride of the Cities," has been turning city halls into hothouses of governmental innovation. They are challenging entrenched interests and butting heads with traditional allies in the pursuit of real reform: overhauling the school system in Chicago, reshaping labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITY BOOSTERS | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...should one do with the knowledge that we are alone in the universe? In a lovely piece in the New York Times, John Noble Wilford cited with some melancholy our "cosmic loneliness." One could go anywhere with that daunting thought. We could conclude that we humans are a special breed, appointed by universal forces to planet-hop and rule. It would be like us to think that--every dead brown rock on every dead brown planet serving to exalt our life by contrast. We are the fireworks in the darkened universe, the Chinese firecrackers, the Roman candles and the sparklers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARS: VISIT TO A SMALLER PLANET | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

...Pihsnamwohs" (showmanship spelled backward), ballyhooed his 1944 birth-of-a-baby film, Mom and Dad, so successfully that it ran for decades and, according to the Grindhouse authors, earned $100 million. And in the late '50s, as bold European films lured the art-house crowds, a new breed of grind gurus revived sexploitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SEX! VIOLENCE! TRASH! | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...increase is due in part to the growing popularity of dogs that people buy to protect themselves against violent crime. The fiercely protective Rottweiler, in particular, has gone from 15th in 1986 to the second most owned dog in the American Kennel Club's registry of breeds. (Between 1979 and 1996, according to Sacks' study, Rottweilers were responsible for 29 fatal attacks, second only to pit bulls, which accounted for 60.) Ann Martin-Gonnerman, president of the Kansas City-based National Society for the Protection of Animals, says the problem isn't so much the canines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAN'S BEST FRIEND? | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

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