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...suffering equal so that all remedies will be. It is a trend that would make the college student who is insulted by a racial joke comparable to James Meredith barred at the door of Ole Miss; rape by a spouse as terrorizing as rape by a stranger with a knife in a dark alley; a Playboy calendar on the wall as detrimental on the job as a supervisor who takes away the duties of a clerk who has rebuffed his advances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, Obesity Rights | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...look, you think as you wait for a self-service scoop of cauliflower au gratin. The gentleman in front of you on line is wearing a ski mask. How quaint. However will he use his fork and knife? Oh, what does it matter. These ingenious Harvard men will always find...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Neon Kudzu | 12/4/1993 | See Source »

...prisoners in Manchuria. Now 65 and a construction worker, he is still tormented by the memory of his two years with Unit 731 as it worked on developing a "germ bomb," which Tokyo hoped would help win World War II. "I myself did not put any prisoner under the knife," he tells a mostly middle-aged audience of about 50 people at Hachioji, near Tokyo. "But when I think that the rats and fleas I bred were used in experiments which killed so many people, I feel that it's my task to tell everyone that such things took place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Baring the Shame | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...prisoners at the Missouri State Penitentiary confronted a black inmate, Arthur Dade, as he emerged from his cell. One assailant threw a container of steaming bleach water in Dade's face and another grabbed him from behind. The group's leader then stabbed Dade several times with a homemade knife. One suspect was caught immediately, another shortly after he fled. A guard identified the third as Schlup, whom authorities found eating a fish sandwich in the prison cafeteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invitation to an Execution | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...John recalled that after he crawled into bed that night, "she put her knees up around me" and draped her arms across his back before he drifted off to sleep. What came next seemed to be the only point on which both Bobbitts could agree: Lorena seized a kitchen knife and sliced off John's penis. (It has since been surgically reattached, though it will not be known for some time whether John will regain his full sexual powers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swift Sword of Justice | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

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