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When Charlene Smith found the intruder in her house in Johannesburg, South Africa, she started screaming. But he had a knife, and very soon her hands were tied behind her back with rounds of thick masking tape. Then he raped her. But her ordeal was not over after he left. In a country with one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world, bureaucratic and hospital red tape kept her from getting preventive drugs for 5 1/2 hours. If she had not complained loudly and bitterly, she might never have got the medication. The experience left her stunned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: An Epidemic of Rapes | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...dogs, run through a dish washer, burned, dropped in a paper shredder. Holes have been punched through the magnetic strip. Some have been broken when used to scrape ice from windshields. (Cards are more brittle at lower temperatures)." So don't confuse your card with a Swiss Army knife or you might find yourself out in the cold...

Author: By David M. Rosenblatt, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The ID Deconstructed | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

...popular slice-of-life operas as Puccini's La Boheme and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Sure enough, the tale of Eddie Carbone (baritone Kim Josephson), a middle-aged longshoreman who lusts after his young niece Catherine (soprano Juliana Rambaldi), has verismo stamped all over it, right down to the climactic knife fight. In this new version, adapted by Miller and co-librettist Arnold Weinstein, View has acquired a Greek chorus that comments on the unfolding disaster, though the overall effect remains faithful to the original play. Think of West Side Story, only with the kids grown up--and angrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doo-Wop And Knife Fights | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...make the school letters appear old and cracked, run a knife under the edges of the characters and pick at the decal. A nail file or sand paper will roughen the surface of the letters...

Author: By F. G. Tilney, | Title: Ready Prep GO! | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...Finally, fray the seams of the sleeves and the neckline by running a sharp knife along the leading edge...

Author: By F. G. Tilney, | Title: Ready Prep GO! | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

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