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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sherlock Holmes hat or cape, say, or one of those flouncy, too-much-by-half fin-de-siecle velvet gowns: "We drank Veuve Cliquot...") and find you look absolutely ridiculous in it. I always thought it would be risky to go out in the classic horseman's duster that was one of Peterman's hottest items when he started the business 12 years ago. Even if you look like Clint Eastwood, the duster is not advisable. Though we all like to dress up--and the baby boomers especially, for they sprang from the costume party of the '60s--you must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Times At J. Peterman | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...start of the musical is now more than content to do the can-can with silverware. Could Disney be sending out subliminal messages to young girls about how a woman's place should be in the home, or is this critic simply paranoid? After witnessing the feather duster (Heather Lee) grab at her breasts while proclaiming how attractive she is, this reviewer leaves you to make the call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disney Does Theater With Beauty | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

...very small room, you can be producing kilogram quantities of anthrax within a month." And each kilo "has millions and millions of potential deaths in it." A study by the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment estimated that 100 kilos of anthrax spread by a crop duster over Washington could cause 2 million deaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERM WARFARE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...course, getting 100 kilos of anthrax and a crop duster over Washington would not be easy. "Dispersal is the real challenge," says Zilinskas. "You've got to get these bugs to the people." But if Iraq shipped toxins out by diplomatic pouch and handed them over to some cooperative terrorists, it might not be impossible. Iraq has also been tinkering with other methods. Before the Gulf War it had several hundred Italian-made pesticide dispensers fitted with spray nozzles for spitting out bioweapons in droplet size. In 1990 the Iraqis flight-tested a remote-controlled MiG-21 fighter mounted with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERM WARFARE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

Lastly, there is a religious component to the hard-bitten right. Dan Fuller, a retired crop duster who last year joined a "Christian covenant community" in Idaho, glimpses signs of the "mark of the beast" from Revelations in government fiscal policy. He shares a widespread fear among Christian patriots that bodily implanted microchips will replace cash, ultimately spelling slavery for ordinary Americans. Vicki and Randall Weaver had visions of an apocalypse brought on by a Babylonian Federal Government, or ZOG (Zionist-Occupied Government). The apocalypse that came to their Idaho mountaintop in 1992--over flimsy gun charges against Randall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTCASTS DIGGING IN FOR THE APOCALYPSE | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

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