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...those with a crude sense of humor, Jack's sells powders guaranteed to induce belching, farting and sneezing. In addition, one can buy "Chunky and Loose Puke," stink bombs, stink spray and a convincingly realistic "Dog Mess...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: jack attack | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...oceanography as most scientists. But he started out as a surfer who kept on wondering why great waves were so hard to find. In the early '80s, while he and his buddies were roaming the sparsely populated beaches of the Baja Peninsula, Collins began spinning out his first crude forecasts, downloading satellite weather maps in the middle of the desert with the help of an antenna strung from a cactus, a short-wave radio and a portable fax machine. In 1985 he helped set up Surfline, a Huntington Beach, Calif., firm that distributes daily wave forecasts at a charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Winter Of Giant Waves | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...that the jury of eight--evenly divided between officers and enlisted men and including one black, one Hispanic and two women (both officers)--believed McKinney; it was that the jury didn't believe the six women who, unknown to one another, had come forward to tell similar stories about crude come-ons from the Army's senior soldier. As the verdicts were read in an Army courtroom at Fort Belvoir, just south of Washington, five of the six sat listening in disbelief, some in tears, others stone-faced. Sergeant Major Brenda Hoster, McKinney's former public affairs aide (now retired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: No Go: Why the Army Lost A High-Profile Sex Case | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...stranger is in the mood to mate or in distress, is preparing to attack or about to retreat in fear. The chemicals that carry these odorless messages are called pheromones, and while most animals produce them, the highest animals--humans--were thought to be above such crude olfactory signals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Following Our Noses | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...Stan follows his dog to a sort of amusement park for homosexual pets. "Stan's dog's a homo!" is a typical line from that show. While the series is now created on a computer, Parker and Stone first used construction paper in their animation, which retains a flat, crude look with leaps into the fantastic. Altogether, the effect is Peanuts by way of Tim Burton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gross And Grosser | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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