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...late '70s Gary became fanatical about religion, according to Marcia. He would go from door to door proselytizing for a Pentecostal church and would be infuriated when people refused to listen to him. At home he would sit in front of the television with a Bible open on his lap, and he often cried after attending church services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: River Of Death | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...more about performing. "Now," she says, with clubs and police showing greater tolerance of physical contact, "it's about sex. It's about getting men off." Whereas the stage was once the focal point of strip clubs, the job in most venues now consists almost entirely of giving lap dances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Stripping Down to the Roots | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

LOVE THAT SCHOOL BUS Sending children off on the big yellow bus is almost eight times as safe as driving them to school in the family car, according to a new federal report. Strong, closely spaced bus seats were said to protect students in head-on crashes--but lap belts, which could increase the incidence of neck injury, were of little benefit. Still, the Department of Transportation is considering shoulder-style belts for smaller buses, which are more prone to rollovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Family: May 20, 2002 | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...winning trust is not easy in Aceh?especially when heavily armed units routinely patrol nearby villages in armored personnel carriers with heavy machine-guns mounted on the roof. "An attack can happen at any time, any place," warns army intelligence officer Captain Adrain Ade, an assault-rifle on his lap, as he scans passing villages for signs of rebel activity. His destination today is the distant village of Montasik, where another TNI platoon is camped out in a disused rice warehouse. Conditions are cramped and squalid, and the sense of siege is palpable. Platoon leader Captain Heri Sumitro says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back On The March | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

Between speakers, Co-Founder of Student Global AIDS Campaign Ben M. Wikler ’03 led chants, and Gumboots, a Harvard dance group led a lap of hopping and singing around City Hall Plaza...

Author: By Justin D. Gest, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Students, Stars Rally To Prevent AIDS | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

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