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For Haitian peasants, the native black swine, the so-called cochon planche, has long been a combination bank account, mobile garbage-disposal unit and occasional religious prop. Haitian farmers, among the world's poorest, have relied on the pigs to produce income for medical care, weddings, funerals and education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Eliminating the Haitian Swine | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

Fran Tate is cut of similar cloth. Beside her yearbook picture from her high school in Auburn, Wash., where she held down a newspaper route and set pins in a bowling alley, was written, "By the work one knows the workman." Fran thought this sketch of her character "was awful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alaska: Where the Chili Is Chilly | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

In addition, the photo of an Iranian woman, showing her scars from torture with broken glass, is a fake. There is no evidence that the wounds were inflicted while the woman was in prison, nor do you give her name, age, place of detention or political affiliation. A monafeghin (hypocrites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1984 | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

The controversy centers on ships like the maroon-hulled Vulcanus I, a converted oil tanker, and its newer sister, Vulcanus II, which operate in the North Sea. Both of them are owned by Waste Management Inc., an Illinois-based disposal Goliath. Over the past decade, Vulcanus I has conducted test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Destroying Toxic Wastes at Sea | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

Some critics are worried that monitoring Waste Management's vessels would be difficult. Over the past year the company has been battling charges of improper handling of toxic materials at various of its landlocked disposal sites around the nation. Others object to toxic wastes being trucked to and stored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Destroying Toxic Wastes at Sea | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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