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...homosexuals, and portly girls, whose faces were caked with acne medication." Of people who live in trailers, he remarks that, in general, they "peed in the sink and used metal buckets to barbeque tough purple steaks marked 'reduced for final sale.'" His sense of humor is alert and p.c.-heedless...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: not for the clothes-minded | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

Returning from a night out, Gaither saw flames soaring from a mobile home. The young black man smashed through the door to pull out Larry Leroy Whitten, 44, then revived the white man with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, heedless of the Confederate battle flag fluttering overhead. Gaither was hailed for his race-blind heroism, but says, "I don't deserve the attention. Someone would do the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...start of the New Deal, he went underground for the party. Based in New York City or Baltimore, Maryland, Chambers--code-named "Bob" and later "Karl"--made his furtive way in the world of disappearing ink and microfilm. It was serious enough espionage, although the U.S. authorities were fairly heedless of it at the time. One of Chambers' Soviet accomplices remembered, "If you wore a sign saying, 'I am a spy,' you might still not get arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: SUPPORTING TESTIMONY | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...setback. Not only are stocks heavily overpriced in relation to corporate earnings--the P/E ratio is now about 19--but the average dividend yield, which measures dividends as a percentage of prices, has fallen to an all-time low of less than 2%. Both gauges suggest the type of heedless buying that often precedes a bust. The public's hunger for shares has led Austin Grill, a chain of Tex-Mex eateries in the Washington area, to offer diners a helping of its new public offering along with their enchiladas. When stocks make it to menus, can the Alka-Seltzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS THE DOW TOO PUMPED? | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...chatting with them. Only when man fell to temptation did the natural world receive a coating of evil. But according to Darwinism, the evil in nature lies at its very roots, instilled by its creator, natural selection. After all, natural selection is chronic competition untrammeled by moral rules. Heedless selfishness and wanton predation are traits likely to endure. If these things are sins, then the roots of sin lie at the origin--not just of humankind but of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCIENCE AND ORIGINAL SIN | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

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