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...across the hardscrabble state, federal largesse is being ladled out with a generous hand. In the dusty mountain village of San Miguel de Ocosingo, farmer Jacinto Mendoza Lorenzo proudly displays a pair of brand new, apple-green John Deere tractors parked in front of his thatched hut. The vehicles were purchased by Mendoza's ejido, or communal farm, on easy-credit terms arranged by the government. Gazing at the precious tractors, Mendoza says, ``We're interested in working, and the government seems to be interested in helping us do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAGES OF REBELLION | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

Over the past year, businesses across America and around the world have been scrambling to set up shop on the Web. Today, one can peruse on-line "home pages" for companies ranging from Condom Country to Pizza Hut (yes, they deliver...

Author: By Eugene Koh and Douglas M. Pravda, S | Title: Exploring the World Wide Web | 12/6/1994 | See Source »

...page is essentially its "cyberspace address." The URL for Pizza Hut is http://www.pizzahut.com, and the URL for Condom Country is http://www.ag.com/Condom/Country.

Author: By Eugene Koh and Douglas M. Pravda, S | Title: Exploring the World Wide Web | 12/6/1994 | See Source »

...slightly more salacious than Scarlett the tome but ultimately no more compelling or fun. Margaret Mitchell's estate stipulated that a sequel to her 1936 novel not contain any explicit sex. The TV producers, spared this constraint, show Scarlett and Rhett disrobing each other frantically in a fisherman's hut. Moreover, the character of Lord Fenton (Sean Bean), with whom Scarlett has an affair, is given far more prominence than he enjoyed in the book. He is a secret rapist-murderer who beats Scarlett when she dismisses him. "I am not accustomed to sudden onsets of chastity!" he yells while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Tomorrow Is Another Yawn | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

After Pizza Hut heard about the ad, its lawyers threatened the producers and affiliates with legal action on the grounds that the commercials conveyed false information. "They're not going to say this, but it's a worry about advertising," contended Robert Chlopak, a consultant to the Health Care Reform Project, which conceived the ads. But on Friday, Pizza Hut president Allan Huston appeared to back down from the company's threat. As a result, the reform project will try again to broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ads They Refused to Run | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

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