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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...integral part of how we act, rarely are particular musicians touted as anything but a negative impact on society at large. Thus Marilyn Manson is responsible for asocial behavior, NWA is to blame for violence against the police, and a host of pop musicians are the propagators of heroin chic. Few musical movements "represent" anything, for the sheer volume of commercial production in any one genre tends to render the offhand or nonchalant stereotype misinformed or misplaced...

Author: By Luke Z. Fenchel, | Title: Taking Hip-Hop to the NEXTLEVEL | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...Customs Service faces a specific problem that racial profiling is meant to address. The major overseas drug gangs responsible for the importation of illegal drugs often use the weakest members of their own ethnic groups. "For example," says Shannon, "it is well known that Nigerian crime gangs controlling the heroin trade tend to use U.S. black or Nigerian women as their couriers." The Custom Service does not want to give up the practice of profiling or its right to stop and search African-American women. "What it needs to do," says Shannon, "is to develop procedures that ensure civility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heeding Minority Concerns, Reno Tackles Racial Profiling | 4/9/1999 | See Source »

There's a new obsession sweeping the country, reaching into homes and dorm rooms across the country via modems everywhere. According to Searchterms.com, a Web site that tracks the most common Internet search words, it is second in popularity only to pornography. As addictive as heroin and just as illegal, it can cost you hours upon hours of valuable study time...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Music for the Masses | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

...K.L.A. leaders, from bloodthirsty terrorists who target civilians to patriots ready to die for their putative country. Some commanders are outright criminals. Interpol cops say parts of the K.L.A. are funded by profits from smuggling along the infamous "Balkan route," the main line for 90% of Western Europe's heroin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo's Army in Waiting | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...unambitious chuckle out of EdTV. But in the real remake category, one look at the papers ("A film of unusual ineptitude," raved the New York Times) and CP's ready to bet the farm that The Mod Squad, stripped of its afros, funky title sequence, and the heroin chic of Peggy Lipton, has flushed it's soul down the '90s post-mod crapper. Find the old pilot. Watch. Repeat. And as always, rewind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Learned To Love the Potato | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

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