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...light and demand money at gunpoint or force occupants to an ATM. The crime is so pervasive that Brazil has become the world's hottest market for private armored vehicles. And for the largest U.S. armorer--O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt, based in Fairfield, Ohio--times are flush. For about $65,000, O'Gara will take your Cadillac and outfit it with bulletproof glass, high-tensile body plastic, a siren and a slew of other security accessories. Since 1996 the firm's Brazilian revenues have surged more than sevenfold, to $14.5 million last year. In November, O'Gara opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: Jul. 16, 2001 | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...gnawing away at Chicago-area trees. In April, environmentalists filed a suit to force the EPA to bar oceangoing vessels from dumping their ballast water--a major source of invasive species--in U.S. ports. So far, California and Washington are the only states requiring ships from foreign harbors to flush their ballast at sea before docking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: Jun. 11, 2001 | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...that range from $6 to $45 a night), the Spa at Samui's eastern Lamai beach offers nothing less than the elixir of youth. With promises of "a longer and happier life," derivative traders, TV producers, flight attendants and other visitors swallow herbal nutrition tablets, quaff detoxifiers and regularly flush their insides. The talk over laxative tea runs from the latest stock fluctuations to?I'm not joking?the day's excreta. The guest book includes testaments to changed lives and?I wish I were joking?photos of half-meter-long expunged intestinal parasites. In addition to a seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of the Perfect Cleansing in Thailand | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...parent, for instance, can program the home's wireless network to run a bath for their child, or even to water the garden -- with less water wastage. Another eco-friendly feature: residents can recycle "grey" water from showers, sinks and baths -- and use it to flush toilets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Homing' In on a Wireless Future | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

MONDAY RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL If you set off a bomb here, millions of units of sanitizing tub-and-tile cleanser would go tragically unmarketed. The ad crowd gathered here seems a bit smug this year. The networks raked in a record $8 billion in last year's flush times; now it's a buyer's market. So as NBC touts its new series--a dubious-looking sitcom starring high-decibel chef Emeril Lagasse, the 1,000th version of Law & Order (O.K., the third)--it touts even more its high-income viewers, the real-life Frasier Cranes who make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: James Poniewozik's Journal: Up Close At The Upfronts | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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