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Barton is the most despised woman in Colorado, as hated as Mrs. O'Leary after her cow kick started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The fire has forced the evacuation of 8,000 people southwest of Denver and northwest of Colorado Springs, and could cost $50 million. Smoke detectors 30 miles away continue to go peep-peep-peep as the haze spreads. More than 1,700 fire fighters are battling the flames, including the boyfriend of the older Barton girl. Four fire fighters from Oregon died when their van crashed while on the way to help fight the Barton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Heart Of The Fire | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...Continent's cultural diversity makes it hard to turn a profit on other homegrown programming; the lack of an export market to recoup costs doesn't help. Pornography, the quiet cash cow of the U.S. cable industry, is not as much of a draw in countries where full-frontal nudity is routinely shown on free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cable Guy: John Malone: Wiring Europe | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

...Omen The Uttar Pradesh Cow Protection Commission in India is urging people to smear themselves in cow dung for protection from radiation burns in case of nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

Well, the cow experiment shows the way to even more human betterment. Fetal tissue offers a far simpler and more promising way to produce replacement tissues--it skips all the complications of stem-cell biology and gives you tissue that you can implant right into the human patient. Millions are suffering, are they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fatal Promise of Cloning | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...early 1990s, the threat within Davao from communist rebels and Muslim guerrillas had faded. Duterte's vigilance had not. Urchins caught picking pockets have got beatings with a belt or a cow's tail from the mayor himself, often in City Hall. Rich kids who hot-rodded down the city streets were warned that they'd be paraded naked around town. And throughout, he let it be known that he would never relent in his fight against rapists, petty thieves and particularly drug pushers. "If you sell drugs to destroy other people's lives," he threatened, "I can be brutal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Punisher | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

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