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...FUEL 22 gal. of 110 octane in a rubber-like bladder designed for aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Lap: Inside The Race Car: Life At 190 M.P.H. | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...couldn't afford to feed and clothe her, sent her to a house in Port-au-Prince to be a restavek. When Ania was 12--after six years of labor that included emptying bedpans and making six half-hour treks a day to gather water in a 5-gal. container--she was allowed to visit her parents for a week. She told them she wanted to return home for good. "But my mother told me that no matter how bad my life was in Port-au-Prince, it would be even worse there," says Ania. "She made me go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Haitian Bondage | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...potential. In the most recent study, in 1998, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that there could be between 3 billion and 16 billion bbl. of oil in Area 1002. In 1989 the Senate Energy Committee was ready to authorize drilling when the Exxon Valdez disaster spilled almost 11 million gal. of oil, polluting more than 1,000 miles of Alaskan shoreline. The bill was shelved. Six years later, during the Newt Gingrich era, Republicans pushed another bill, but President Clinton vetoed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Wild Place: War Over Arctic Oil | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...accomplice. (Yes, she told Matt Lauer last week, she'd be willing to testify.) Maybe Lopez believes in honoring TV commitments, or maybe she simply has unsquashable cojones, but there's no doubt she's got It. She is what the old movie moguls would have called a game gal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Butts About It | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...play perkily yuppyish. Her Mary is smart, nice and sexy; if boys dreamed of future brides and not of instant hookers, she would star in a million fervid fantasies. The film is unlikely to win critical raves, but we'll give Lopez a pass on this one. The game gal can't win every game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Butts About It | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

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