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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...resident Tim Strickland, 39, makes $25,000 a year. But last year he hurt his back and temporarily left his job as a water-treatment-plant operator. "I was living penny by penny," he says. Friends at a food pantry learned of his plight and sent groceries. Aledia Johnson of Newport News has a job as a corrections officer for Virginia. But she makes little more than minimum wage. Without the food pantry, she says, she would not be able to make ends meet. Says Johnson: "I have a mortgage to pay. I have to keep my car running. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGRY AT THE FEAST | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...profited more than the government from the sale of tobacco. It's time it kicked the habit and improved its moral position." DOUG JOHNSON Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 21, 1997 | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

ATLANTA: Bernard Shaw's blossoming film career took a hit today when CNN president Tom Johnson said that CNN is reconsidering its policy of allowing its news anchors to play themselves in movies. CNN had been roundly criticized for appearances by 13 CNN on-air personnel in the movie "Contact" delivering fictional news reports about a message from an alien civilization. Earlier, Shaw had appeared in "The Lost World" reporting that dinosaurs had run amok in San Diego. But "Contact" came under special scrutiny because CNN's parent company, Time Warner, also owns Warner Bros., which produced the film. Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CNN to Bernie: Cut! | 7/15/1997 | See Source »

...watching Tiger Woods on the front side of immortality and Wayne Gretzky in the last few minutes of his game. This season Ken Griffey Jr. may hit 60 or more home runs, and Cal Ripken Jr. will play in his 2,478th straight game. Last summer Michael Johnson reminded us of Jesse Owens, Amy van Dyken of Eleanor Holm and Kerri Strug of Sergeant York. Loathe him or merely dislike him, we shake our heads in wonder over the crossover talents of Deion Sanders. Appreciate 'em if you got 'em: Evander Holyfield, Pete Sampras, Brett Favre, Jeff Gordon. Maybe Silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIKE, AND THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF SPORT | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...TIME copy boy, to his first best seller, Hell's Angels, in 1967. There are absurdly elaborate screeds to collection agencies and complaints to banks about the color of his checks. The proud highwayman wrote to William Faulkner, suggesting that the Nobel laureate send him money; to President Johnson, nominating himself for the governorship of American Samoa; to the Postmaster General, protesting the introduction of Zip Codes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE MASK BEHIND THE MAN | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

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