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...Jean Auel's books have sold 34 million copies, but she can still walk into Starbucks without turning heads, and unlike a certain teen star with similar pull, she won't be caught prancing around with a snake on her shoulders. Skinning it with a flint knife would be more her style: Auel is the author of the Neolithic saga The Clan of the Cave Bear and its four sequels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romancing The Stone Age | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...Then Messina, a stocky former cop with a Fu Manchu mustache, began thrusting a 6-in. gold object into the air. "But this is the best!" he boasted. "I bought it yesterday at John F. Kennedy Airport." In his hand was a dagger-sized Statue of Liberty with a knife-sharp torch and crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline Security: Stuck on the Runway? | 4/21/2002 | See Source »

...Christianity later that year, it wasn’t that simple. A rough final year of high school, which he says was characterized by “self-degradation, bad feelings and low self-esteem,” had culminated in suicidal tendencies. “I had the knife out and on my wrist,” he says...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Checking God Off Your To-Do List | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

Everyone has a dream, and Tim Leatherman's dream was simple: he wanted a single tool that was both a knife and a pair of pliers. In 1983, after years of tinkering, he created a distinctively double-jointed multitool that looks like two Swiss Army knives caught in the act of mating; in addition to a knife and pliers, it had a dozen other doodads on it to boot. Since then it has become a cult classic, with 25 million units sold; Sunday night's Oscar presenters got them in their gift baskets. And, yes, Leatherman is his real name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Leatherman for All Seasons | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...routines in the show. The rap music act seems to appeal to kids but in the other one, the knife throwing act, the humor is more sophisticated and seems more geared to adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: David Larible | 3/29/2002 | See Source »

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