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...used three and four times the amount of solvents in Mexico as it did at a comparable plant in Dayton, Ohio. "Not allowed in Dayton," noted a handwritten GM memo. The automaker said in a 1995 deposition that this was allowed along the border because the air was considered cleaner there and so didn't require special pollution-control measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BORDER BABIES | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

Hello, pilgrim, and congratulations. Your hard traveling has brought you to a strange and wondrous place: Right now, on a day you are lucky to be alive to see, the U.S. is enjoying its best economic and social health in 25 years. We're living longer, breathing cleaner air, drinking cleaner water. Crime is in free fall, with violent evildoing near a 22-year low, and the downtowns we once gave up for dead are bristling with coffee bars, green markets, life. New York City, that trusty symbol of terminal decay, is bloated no more. It boasts America's sharpest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE? | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...sensitive about the media's fixation on his former career as a house cleaner, which he describes as "my job and their hook." In a Rod Roddy voice he relates one uncomfortable appearance on a talk show whose host cackled, "Our guest is an author and...get this...he cleans houses...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: not for the clothes-minded | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...star in one of them, the twelve-year old Valentine Fedotova, who plays Vania's protector, the daughter of his captor. Silent at first, her incredible eyes convey innocence while her daily life conveys drudgery. With her mother dead, she is the woman of the house, the cook, the cleaner, the farmer and the care-taker. She cannot help but care for the boy Vania, whom she enchants with dance, jingling bells, bread and kindness, a rare commodity...

Author: By Sarah D. Kalloch, | Title: Bodrov Tells of Soldiers' Struggle | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

...cleaner slate for CORONARY-BYPASS PATIENTS. Often the grafted veins used for the surgery wind up just as clogged as the arteries that are bypassed. But research shows that taking drugs to lower cholesterol aggressively can greatly reduce the chances of the grafts' going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 27, 1997 | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

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