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...Nervously, the teens ease down a narrow stairway into a dark, dank room where an old man in a tank top sits surrounded by garbage bags full of dried 'shrooms, which he doles out in tiny, $4.80 bags. The teenagers say they'll buy 15, hoping to save some for friends back home. They re-emerge on the street, with their stash in a paper bag. Later they'll eat the mushrooms, maybe mixing them with bananas or yogurt to cut the bitter taste. "I'll try anything I don't have to shoot up," says Doi, 18. "I just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tokyo Takes a Trip | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...Even beyond the horrifying flaws in the postal service?s long-term budgetary planning, I have to question the methodology by which they came up with the latest increases. I can just see the brainstorming process now, somewhere in a dank basement office on Capitol Hill: "Hey, I have an idea! Maybe no one will notice if we raise the rates on postcard stamps!" Yeah, that?s a great idea. Because who sends postcards? Two demographic groups who are going to feel the pinch more than anyone: Old people - "What do you mean, you want 22 cents to send this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Mr. Mailman! Make Up Your Mind About My Stamps! | 5/8/2001 | See Source »

...credit, Live Show knows better than to be pretentious. In fast, documentary-style, the camera jostles through the dank alleys of Manila's slums and into the queasy, crowded rooms where the performers copulate on lumpy mattresses. There are flashes of flesh, but the camera focuses on the audience's eerie, dead stare. When one of the women, Gigi, starts grunting loudly during sex, her partner wonders if its the onset of an asthma attack. It turns out she was trying to catch the eye of a Korean pornographer in the crowd. For most of the characters, anything that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Scissors | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...ubiquitous performing bears were forced into retirement by an animal-rights conscious government armed with a rarely enforced wildlife protection statute. The intention: to improve the bears' undeniably terrible lot. The result, however, has been even worse. Ten New Delhi bears have been confiscated from owners and confined to dank animal shelters. Some have stopped eating because of homesickness and one bear has passed away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Setting Free the (Wrong) Bears | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...even NYPD Blue's). We've seen O'Neill's bulldog lawman too often, as well as the hackneyed Noo-Yawk elements: the title, the waterfront scenes, the fast-talking thugs constantly declaring their ethnicity, swearing, spouting colorful cliches or all three ("Kiss my underpaid Irish ass!"). The dank, moody tone is dead-on, though, and a strong cast includes the welcome David Strathairn as the stressed-out head of the FBI force. It's hardly the cure-all for Thursdays-at-10 malaise, but this Apple at least has a chance of keeping the doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Must-See Dustup, Part 2 | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

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