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...Unlike the tobacco industry, which puts giant warning labels on billboard and magazine ads, Q-Tips puts giant warnings only on the back of its packaging. It never runs TV commercials showing cool-looking kids in leather jackets handing each other Q-Tips until one sticks a swab in so deep that blood spurts out. And while Philip Morris gives money to charities and the arts, I ask you to ask yourself if you've ever been handed a program that reads "Q-Tips Presents Verdi's La Traviata." And there aren't any Q-Tips racing teams. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Evil in the Ear Canal | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...eventually, the film version) of Schindler's List; in Los Angeles. Polish-born Page survived World War II after being rescued from a concentration camp in 1944 when he was included in the list of 1,200 Jews that Oskar Schindler employed in his munitions factory. Owner of a leather goods shop in Beverly Hills after the war, Page spent 40 years badgering writers to take up Schindler's story, finally succeeding when Australian author Thomas Keneally came into the store to buy a briefcase in 1980. Page also personally persuaded director Steven Spielberg to make the movie, which went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

Behind the outsize leather seats for driver and companion is a small salon with a couch, a pair of swivel armchairs and a coffee table. Next come the kitchen and dinette, equipped with a table for two, standard-size sink and dishwasher, a 21-cu.-ft. refrigerator/freezer, including icemaker, and a clothes washer and a dryer. The bathroom has a toilet, two sinks and a full-size shower with brass fixtures. The bedroom, with a queen-size bed, has a second TV set, and a satellite dish on the roof keeps the bus linked to dozens of stations even while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home On The Road | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

Unlike the tobacco industry, which puts giant warning labels on billboard and magazine ads, Q-Tips puts giant warnings only on the back of its packaging. It never runs TV commercials showing cool-looking kids in leather jackets handing each other Q-Tips until one sticks a swab in so deep that blood spurts out. And while Philip Morris gives money to charities and the arts, I ask you to ask yourself if you've ever been handed a program that reads "Q-Tips Presents Verdi's La Traviata." And there aren't any Q-Tips racing teams. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Evil in the Ear Canal | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...sweeps into the New York City radio station Hot 97 with the same you-can't-stop-me air Allen Iverson has when he steps onto a basketball court. She's dressed way past the nines--she's hovering around the elevens--in purple boots, purple Anna Sui leather pants and a black mink coat. Her hair, once platinum blond, is arranged in cornrows dyed a shade of red that almost makes the braids appear to glow, like space-heater coils. Eve does an on-air interview hyping her new CD, Scorpion (Ruff Ryders/Interscope), and then records a few attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: First Lady Of Gangstas | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

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