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Welcome to the one-hand-washes-the-other world of "Jim-Bob" Moffett, a former University of Texas football star, geologist and amateur Elvis-impersonator who built Freeport into a mining behemoth with annual revenues of almost $2 billion. Moffett himself is an F.O.S., or friend of Suharto, the ousted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freeport's Lode of Trouble | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

The evening allows me my first glimpse of Gordon and gives me my first hard evidence that racing fans don't come within 500 miles of normal. These may even be the same people who think Elvis is alive. "Oh, my God!" a woman quivers when she spots Gordon in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASCAR: Babes, Bordeaux & Billy Bobs | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

With the stroke of countless pens on thousands of prescription pads, the American coming-of-age experience--the stuff of endless novels, movies and pop songs--could gradually be rendered unrecognizable. Goodbye Salinger, Elvis and Bob Dylan; hello psychopharmacology. "The kids in my school traded Zoloft and Prozac pills the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Danger of Suppressing Sadness | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

PROS --Inviting an Elvis impersonator to their Las Vegas wedding shows they are comfortable with farce --He starred in a TV series called Dangerous Women; she starred in a TV show called Treacherous Beauties --She's the daughter of the Princess of Yugoslavia; he was King Tal in Beastmaster III...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 24, 1999 | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

And no doubt Latin music will continue to thrive as well. The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges once wrote a story about an empire so obsessed with maps that its cartographers constructed a map as large as the empire itself. Indeed, one by one, Spanish-language stars are being mapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin Music Pops | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

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