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...hundreds of miles each week back and forth across Mississippi and Alabama from one to another of three of the abortion clinics he owns. In a typical year he will perform nearly 7,000 abortions and will make about $200,000. Protesters jam his car's locks with Super Glue, dive under his tires, trail him across the South, phone in bomb threats and even distribute a wanted poster with his picture on it: notorious!! Working six days a week, his only real diversions are playing golf and spending each Tuesday night playing blackjack and craps at the Splash Casino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Riding the Abortion Circuit | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...recent Chamber of Commerce study concludes that the number of prostitutes ages 8 to 13 in Bogota has quintupled in the past seven years -- while government funding of programs to help youth in trouble has declined. Sandra Patricia is riddled with venereal disease; her favorite pastime is sniffing glue. "I know I'm sick," she moans, "and people treat me like dirt, and sometimes I'd just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitution: Defiling The Children | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...student concerns weren't enough, the College was also left to contend with system sabotage, exemplified last fall by vandals who damaged a card key validator by filling it with glue...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: House Security Goes Hi-Tech | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...University of Michigan indicates that drug use seems to be steadily declining among high school students but finds, disturbingly, that the opposite is true among eighth-graders. The results indicate that in 1992, 9.5% of eighth-graders (up from 9% in a similar survey in 1991) used inhalants -- glue, nitrous oxide, solvents and other such volatile substances; 7.2% (up from 6.2%) smoked marijuana or hashish, and 2.1% (up from 1.7%) of these 13-year-olds took LSD. The diminution of drug taking among older teenagers (the percentage of 12th- graders who had smoked marijuana, for example, fell from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wasted Youth | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...result: paint without carcinogenic volatile organic compounds; carpeting that is dye-free, glue-free and 100% wool, with padding made from jute and animal hair; subfloors made from Homasote, a recycled-newspaper product, instead of formaldehyde-laden plywood; floor tiles fabricated from crushed light bulbs; a CFC-free insulation made from common minerals; and a reception desk built of maple and of mahogany that was harvested in a manner that does not destroy rain forests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture Goes Green | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

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