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...were lines seven miles long at the Spanish border as authorities made all vehicles from France drive over disinfectant-filled carpets. Beef consumption is down 40% in Germany, Italy and Spain. Le Carnivore, a restaurant in the French city of Nantes that specializes in such alternative meats as ostrich, kangaroo and bison, is booming. French farmers estimated their losses at $185 million a month if all the embargoes against their produce hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Europe: Panic Is Not on the Menu--Yet | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...iceberg. By 2004, predicts Internet research firm Jupiter MMXI, more than 80% of Europe's business-to-business websites will have disappeared - merged, collapsed or simply gone bust. The near future isn't looking good either. "In Europe," says Philippe Hayat, manager of French incubator Kangaroo Village, "the first trimester of 2001 is going to be a cemetery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing Ventured | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...their-pews pace, and three candles glow calmly in the corner. He kneels in the middle of the room. Ignoring him, the dominatrix works at a table laying out a fan, a piece of possum fur, a prickly teaser made of yarn, a hemp rope, a deerskin flogger and kangaroo-hide cat-o'-nine-tails. Finished with her preparations, the mistress turns, walks over to the submissive and grabs the skin at the back of his neck, as a mama cat might lift a kitten. "Stand for me," she commands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...store window, set along an outdoor escalator that snakes up Hong Kong's busy Central district, turns heads all day long as people crane to get a better look at the riding crops and kangaroo-hide whips on display. If they looked closer, they would notice an intriguing sign in the window: "Play Rooms Available." For $115 an hour, customers can rent one of two dungeons to indulge any of their bondage, dominance and sadomasochism (BDSM) proclivities. "People come from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, China - all over the world," says Decima, the store's 54-year-old British owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...What is Harvard planning to do to reform the Administrative Board? Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz once said that calling the Ad Board a "kangaroo court" would be an insult to kangaroos. The Ad Board is not properly constituted to deal with serious cases that belong in the courts. Why are students are not allowed independent representation, especially in a system that is so highly secretive and difficult for students to navigate...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Parent's Primer | 3/2/2001 | See Source »

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