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...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 »

...young Obi-Wan Kenobi in the upcoming Star Wars prequel, The Phantom Menace). However, DiCaprio had expressed strong interest in working with Boyle ever since they crossed paths at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996. DiCaprio had recently made The Basketball Diaries, a dark indie film about heroin addicts, while Boyle was there with Trainspotting, a light indie film about heroin addicts. Back then DiCaprio lobbied Boyle's team for a shot at a future film; two years later, in the wake of Titanic, the Brits were chasing him down to take the part of Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In The Swim Again | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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