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...park buddy Harry Siegel, 19, elaborates on this point. "The ability to howl at the moon has been lost," he laments. "The counterculture has been absorbed by the culture. The blue hair and pierced nipples are trite, and no one pays them any mind. Nothing is outside the fold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT AIN'T US, BABE | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...accidentally killed, usually by longlines set by shrimp and tuna boats, for every one that is caught deliberately, according to the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization. When you add it all up, each human who dies in the jaws of a shark is avenged roughly 6 million-fold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNDER ATTACK | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...rounds of the fight through a head butt. No matter how it is masked, a head butt is a foul in the boxing arena. Tyson, through his biting actions, was simply saying, "Hey, friend! If you want to fight, please, let's fight clean. I'm not going to fold my arms and let you take me out with unfair tactics." It takes courage to do what Tyson did. In our society, it has become clear that the opposite of courage is not cowardice but conformity. IKECHUKWUE IBENEGBU Columbus, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 4, 1997 | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...watched hardly any television. Sure, every now and then I found myself taking in an episode of Seinfeld. Once in a while I tuned in for a late-night fix of Politically Incorrect. And of course I was obligated to endure the annual ritual of watching the Knicks fold in the second round of the playoffs. But my relationship to television from September through May has, through three years of college, grown quite efficient: I've learned to use it only when it's the best or only means of being delivered some nugget of entertainment or acquiring a particular...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: A Small Screen Summer | 7/11/1997 | See Source »

...immigrant or ethnic ones--onto existing churches. No city's religious establishment has pursued church planting more passionately than St. Louis'. But the city's church-planting story carries an ambivalent message: while the outreach brings Christians into the church building, it doesn't quite integrate them into the fold. It is a parable of the worldly limitations that still bedevil communities of faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI: GATHERING IN FAITH BUT NOT TOO CLOSE | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

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