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Rising prices are also being fueled by Baghdad's own overheated production of bank notes. To cover government salaries and the cost of postwar reconstruction, Iraq has been printing money at a rapid clip, on cheaper paper, which makes counterfeiting easier. Currency dealers in New York City say that some genuine Iraqi dinars are now so sloppily printed that on first inspection they appear to be inept forgeries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paper Tiger? | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...hardback rather than using the scrolling strings of text so familiar to computer users. A touch of a button turns the page or allows the reader to flip back and forth. Users can dog-ear the corner of a page to mark their place, or attach an electronic paper clip for easy reference. Passages can be underscored or marked on the side, and there are generous margins for putting down notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Read A Good PowerBook Lately? | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

According to conventional wisdom in the music business, black musicians do rap and soul, whites do rock 'n' roll. So what to make of a group like Follow for Now? Their dreadlocks and fade-style haircuts seem to come straight out of a Yo! MTV Raps video clip. So do the lyrics to songs such as White Hood, their spirited diatribe against skinheads and other white supremacists. But the thrashing guitars and drum licks the five members of the band play on their eponymous debut album leave little doubt that their musical roots reach deep into hard rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Down to Their Roots | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...every item in the bags is as harmless as a lunch sack--or as soft as the Charmin that Harvey sees so often. "Those clipboards, they're dangerous," Goodridge says, warily eying the sharp edge of a metal clip...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Checking You Out | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

Sooner or later, we always seem to wind up back in the candy factory. You remember the scene: Lucy and Ethel go to work on a candy-wrapping assembly line. A conveyor belt feeds them chocolates at a ridiculously fast clip. They try desperately to keep up, frantically stuffing the candy into their blouses, hats and mouths before the supervisor returns. A comedy classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Yet Again, Lucy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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