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A crowded police-court docket, said Mark Twain, is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty. The current season would seem to bear him out, with a slight twist. There is brisk betting and plentiful money riding on a schedule that is up to its antenna in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 29 Years Ago In TIME | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

For folks who get their forensics strictly from the prime-time dramas, things are a lot simpler--and prettier. Watch an episode of CSI, and you would think forensic investigators move in a world of lab coats fresh from the cleaners, offices done up in glass brick and autopsy tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Science Solves Crimes | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

Perhaps it was a pact with the devil or just impossibly advantageous genes, but MICHELLE PFEIFFER adamantly asserts that her enviable appearance owes nothing to plastic surgery. The clarification came after a comment made by PATRICIA HEATON, who happily cops to her own touch-ups. Heaton, the co-star of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 21, 2002 | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

TERROR Targeting Asia's Weakness Islamic terrorists routinely say they hate the West - so why are they taking it out on the East? Bombings in Manila, Zamboanga and Karachi, in the wake of a particularly horrific blast in Bali, provided the answer: Asia offers the softest targets, often because its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 10/20/2002 | See Source »

Moore is an ace propagandist. He employs excoriating anger (a zippy montage critical of U.S. interventionism, from installing the Shah of Iran in 1953 to giving $245 million in foreign aid to Taliban-run Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001), then switches to breezy humor (a larkish, South Park--ish animation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Blood Bath and Beyond | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

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