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Some base houses serve as modern-day opium dens, where addicts not only purchase crack but rent pipes, hang out and get wasted. Most of these establishments are run-down and filthy, littered with ragged furniture, trash and graffiti. Rockheads will sometimes stay for days, spending whatever cash they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crack: A cheap and deadly cocaine is a fast-spreading menace | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Around the time of the mass extinction, the fossil site was apparently in a 300-mile-long rift valley fringed with high mountains. The climate swung between wet and dry spells every 20,000 years or so, leaving telltale alternating layers of lake sediments and sandstone visible on the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Rosetta Stone of Evolution | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

A grim kind of camaraderie is evident among owners of orphaned computers. Those who cannot afford to scrap their machines or donate them to schools as tax deductions often turn to fellow users for comfort and support. As a result, hundreds of orphan-user groups have sprung up across the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Generation of Orphans | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

What follow is 100 pages, 99 too many, describing the seamier side of Lauren's double life. Her work after hours takes her into the nighttime dens of London's healthy Arabs and the hotel rooms of travelling businessmen, some of whom are merely looking for companionship others for an...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: Half-Baked | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

Investment-minded home-computer buffs can also link their machines via telephone to information services like Dow Jones News/Retrieval or the Source, which provide stock quotations and financial news. With the help of such personal-computer programs as Winning on Wall Street and Market Analyst, investors can become financial analysts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bull and Bear Brawl | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

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