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Children are especially vulnerable to the junk that your neighbor's lawn service fogs around or to the "completely safe for humans" stuff that you bought at the hardware store. Lawn poisons can cause headaches, dizziness, eye problems, mental disorientation and lasting damage to the nervous system. Cancer is also a possibility, since some pesticides contain known carcinogens. Of course, your lawn looks great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Lawns Be Justified? | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...offering higher payouts on annuities and charging lower fees than most of its competitors. To meet its growing obligations, the insurer plunged headlong into the high-yield bond market controlled by Drexel Burnham's Michael Milken and puffed up its $10.1 billion asset base with $6.4 billion in risky junk bonds. Once the junk-bond market fizzled in 1989, First Executive Corp., Executive Life's holding company, began to sustain huge losses. California insurance officials are now investigating other large insurers to determine whether they also are too heavily invested in junk bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investments: Is Your Pension Safe? | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

Phone Your Mother! Phone Your Grandfather! But don't worry about writing. The Postal Service doesn't need your money. They do just fine, thanks, subsisting on junk mail from J.C. Penney and subscriptions to Vogue...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford, | Title: Mail Dominance | 5/17/1991 | See Source »

...Columbus. She has been asked for an article on the quincentennial of his first voyage from her people's perspective. He is laptopping an epic poem on the great explorer. In pursuit of Columbus' lost diary, Roger and Vivian fly to Eleuthera in the Bahamas as guests of a junk-bond financier on the lam. This quasi Milken thinks Vivian knows the secret burial site of a golden crown that Queen Isabella gave Columbus. But what if it was a crown of a different kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1 + 1 Is Less Than 2 | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

...part, found the relationship between boss and worker hard to fathom. Used to bowing when meeting a superior, he now greets John Morse, the third-generation Montanan hired to run the Lazy 8, by shouting "Hi, John!" "Yeah, Kaz, you guys gotta get rid of that junk," says Chaffin, offering a lesson in American egalitarianism between bites of a roast beef sandwich. "People who run things aren't any better than us. They just make more money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dillon, Montana The Rising Sun Meets the Big Sky | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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