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...listed as Carmin's guardian, held the account. "The IRS is satisfied that money does not belong to the taxpayer that owes the Government money," said an agency spokesman. Carmin, meanwhile, celebrated the news, and escaped the summer heat, by frolicking in the cool spray of a garden hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Turn Over That Piggy Bank! | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...Triomphe, that proud tribute to French glories in war, has been showing signs of age. Unsettled by shifting foundations and vibrations from traffic, the 151-year-old structure is crumbling. An unsightly nylon net now hangs like ill-fitting panty hose from its ornately carved arches to catch chunks of falling stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: How to Cure a Falling Arch | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...author herself floated in and out of relationships and jobs until deciding to become a writer, throughout the book struggling to reconcile what Radcliffe taught her and what it did not. And the last character, the neurotic, rich, tennis star-femme fatale, ran a rubber hose from her car's exhaust pipe to its interior and left the engine running...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: The Edge of the Cliffe: | 4/29/1987 | See Source »

...women who work for the Border Patrol reluctantly admit that their job is like a game, like trying to stop a running hose with your finger. We met with the mounted patrolmen late at night. The sound of their hoofs beating down the dirt road in complete darkness was enough to scare us halfway back to the safety of our car. There were only five of them, but they sounded like an angry posse coming...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: The Border Order | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

...held since November. Rivera reported that Heidnik whipped the women with a stick and fed them a mixture of dog food and, it was later learned, minced human flesh. One woman had been electrocuted, the captives said, when Heidnik stood her in the basement earthen pit, used a garden hose to flood it and touched a live wire to her chains. Her body was found in a New Jersey state forest near Camden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House Of Horrors: Serial murder in Philadelphia | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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