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...wife) plan their own insurgency. Meanwhile, Harry has become a pilot smuggling arms to the communists, not for political reasons, but just for the thrill. Throw in some homosexual ex-pats, a whore named Carlita, a transvestite named Pinky, Russian secret agents and a sleazy representative of the "U.S. Fruit Company," and you pretty much have the definition of a modern pulp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An 'American Century' of Unrepentant Crime | 5/25/2001 | See Source »

...Despite the gesture, there is unlikely to be much commitment in the Bush administration to engage in what some call the "quagmire" issues in Africa. But there's not much by way of low-hanging fruit to pick when it comes to addressing Africa's complex problems. No one questions Secretary Powell's commitment to Africa, but the problems are so immense and the relationships so new that without the full commitment of the President driving all the cabinet agencies actively involved in this - as President Clinton did - it's not really going to be enough even if the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Powell's Africa Trip Helps Bush Mend Fences with U.S. Blacks' | 5/23/2001 | See Source »

...This is the Taiwanese heartland, where kids still play marbles with pits of dragon eye fruit the way Chen did when he was a boy. They still go swimming in the creek and roast water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. When Chen was growing up here during the 1950s, Taiwan was still struggling for survival; today's grandiose notion of cultural identity was a distant luxury. While the newly arrived leaders of the Kuomintang, freshly landed from the mainland, were building their capital in Taipei, for the native Taiwanese, descendants mostly of Fujian and Guangdong natives who settled during the 17th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Chen the One? | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

Where would parents be without fruit juice? It tastes great, is full of vitamin C and helps children meet at least some of their daily nutritional fruit requirement. But kids these days seem to be grabbing a good thing and drinking way too much of it. Last week, for the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics set limits on the amount of juice kids should consume. The group acted after reviewing evidence that juices are displacing other nutritious foods and may be contributing to an epidemic of obesity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Juice! | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...films, including Sorority House Slaves and Nymphomercials, to fly to New York City and drive up to Yale with me last Tuesday. Sydnee and I had dinner with the core members of P n' C, including Sweet Jimmy the Benevolent Pimp, Baby Gristle and a gay guy named Fruit on the Bottom. As we ate a large Eritrean meal, it dawned on me that I was the only moron using his real name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chicken Was Delicious | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

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