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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...equals, using words they understand. When 10-year-old boys are becoming fathers and nine-year-old girls are selling their bodies for food, you can't say to them: "Sex is for adults. Do your homework!" We all have to play a game of blind man's buff with our eyes open. We're all just people who are terrified of dying from love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fear and Laughing in South Africa | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...Base in the center of Okinawa, the streets turn into a bacchanalian fest of hard drinking, loud music and raucous, sweaty dancing. American servicemen are on the prowl for liquor and a good time. The local girls, Okinawans and Japanese, come out too, looking for some fun with the buff, dollar-rich and female-deprived American boys. Tattooed guys in muscle shirts and cargo pants rub against women in midriff-baring Tshirts and tight jeans, and as the crowd spills from bars onto sidewalks, the night shifts into hormonal overdrive. "Hey, we're 19-year-old guys, we're away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Island Fever | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...apparent World War II buff recommends "A Mind in Prison: The Memoir of a Son and Soldier of the Third Reich" by Bruno Manz, "Wolfsangel : A German City on Trial 1945-48" by August J. Nigro and "In the Skies of Europe : Air Forces Allied to the Luftwaffe 1939-1945" by Hans Werner Neulen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shine Up Your Library Card | 6/15/2001 | See Source »

Michael Carneal, 17 --14 when crime committed --Tried as an adult in Kentucky --Killed three students, wounded five --Serving 25 to life, will be re- sentenced when he turns 18 LIFE NOW Shares a room with nine others. A computer buff, he cannot have e-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life On The Inside | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...Artemis is repellent in almost every regard. This mastermind is the know-it-all scion of a criminal and fabulously rich Irish family, lately fallen on hard times after the mysterious disappearance of Artemis' father. So the son and his burly henchman Butler embark on a quest to buff up his inheritance by stealing gold from the fairies, who live beneath the earth, having been driven there by the proliferation of humans, or "Mud People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Case Of Fowl Play | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

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