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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Right now, however, she's lighting one last pipeful in a ritual as intricate as a Japanese tea ceremony. She ignites a propane torch and holds the blue flame beneath the smudge of powder in her clear glass pipe. Crank is smoked differently than crack cocaine; it takes less heat and melts instantly (burning away the impurities, Alicia says). Once the drug vaporizes in a white cloud, Alicia inhales. She then repeats the process. The residues in the pipe, called frosties, are infinitely valuable to crankers, and Alicia keeps torching them until they're gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...morally, politically and legally responsible as co-sponsors of the peace process," he said. Sourani said the U.S. had pressured the Palestinian Authority to crack down on Hamas and had praised the repressive military courts...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Speaker Discusses Civil Rights in Middle East | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

...most memorable character: Rockefeller's father, William Avery Rockefeller, a backwoods mountebank and snake-oil pitchman whose history John D. tried to suppress. "Big Bill" Rockefeller, crack shot and con artist, claimed to be a medical doctor and, in the gullible towns of upstate New York and farther west, promised to cure any cancer for $25. Eventually, "Doc" Rockefeller (who made a habit of impregnating the servant girl at home) became a bigamist and started a separate family as "Doctor Levingston"--the name that appears on his tombstone. All his life, Big Bill loved money, and when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: John D. Rockefeller: Oil In The Family | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

Jiang's speech included remarks that someexperts construed as a crack in the door towardsan apology for the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jiang Zemin Visits Harvard, Sparks Protests | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...where voters in February overwhelmingly rejected a referendum to bring casino gambling to the state, to Michigan, where voters may have a chance this November to overturn a plan for three Detroit casinos. But much of the new resistance has focused on video gambling, which experts have called the crack cocaine of wagering because of its quick and deep hold on players. Four years ago, a statewide referendum in South Carolina showed lopsided support for video gambling. But in a survey conducted by the Mason-Dixon polling firm last December, 47% of respondents said video gaming should be done away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Call It Video Crack | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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