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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aggressiveness that would put Cambridge's "Hello there, young man!" Spare Change dealer to shame. These women, without fail, move about in groups, bear very small children on their arms and dress in gypsy-style wraps and shawls. They come to you begging, pointing to their children, and literally hang on your arm for two blocks waiting for money. They even enter restaurants...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: A Post-Communist Summer | 6/27/1997 | See Source »

...Pepsi slug it out as much as anywhere, and you can't buy a soft drink unaffiliated with one of the two. Kellogg's cereals vie for space with Dannon yogurt products. In drug stores, Old Spice, Gillette and Secret occupy the deodorant shelf. Wrangler and Lee jeans, meanwhile, hang in the windows of clothing sellers...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: A Post-Communist Summer | 6/27/1997 | See Source »

Gray's latest foray into the for-profit world is his new Mars & Venus Counseling Centers, in which therapists pay $2,500 for training in the Mars & Venus "technique," an initial licensing fee of $1,900 for the right to hang out a shingle (and use the logo) as a Mars & Venus counselor, and then a $300-a-month "royalty" payment. Gray says he has acquired his special love insights after years of counseling couples and hearing anecdotes from his fans at book signings and lectures. But he is not a licensed anything other than driver, to which some mental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOWER OF PSYCHOBABBLE | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

AMARILLO: Oprah Winfrey ought to know that the state that used to hang rustlers and horse thieves is no place to to be reckless with insults. When she turned vegetarian on the air last year during a piece about mad cow disease, cattle prices plummeted. Along with 12 other ranchers, cattle feeder Paul Engler (who lost $6.7 million as a result) is now suing Winfrey under a 1995 Texas law that protects agricultural products from slander. Her fateful words? "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" No point in horsing around. Winfrey may be able to settle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk About Having a Cow | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

...three years. After birdies on three of the five make-up holes this morning, Els emerged from the foursome not with telegenic derring-do but with hole after hole of consistent play. "Funny things happen in majors," the 27-year-old Els said afterward. "You've just got to hang in there. At U.S. Opens, you just try to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Par Excellence | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

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