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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full-moon Friday night, and Jennifer, 25, a hard-core loker (smoker of methamphetamine, known as crank) has been wide awake around the clock for almost four days. She isn't yet seeing plastic people, shadow men or transparent spiders--just three of the fabled hallucinations of the Billings, Mont., crank scene, a hyperstimulated subculture sickeningly rich in slang and folklore. But she is feeling pangs of remorse about her three-year-old. On Monday, when she left her parents' house, where she has been living since dropping out of college, she promised the daughter she calls "my angel" that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...close to being a parlor trick and in no way resembles TT either in concept or in practice. One wonders what was behind a respected medical journal's publication of this travesty of professional inquiry. DOLORES KRIEGER, Ph.D., R.N. Professor Emerita of Nursing Science New York University Columbia Falls, Mont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 4, 1998 | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...parents' epochal embrace took place in a forest 3,000 ft. up on the flank of Mount Donon, overlooking the Rhineland, in May 1801, though it's typical of Hugo's own mythomania that in adult life he claimed it happened 3,000 ft. higher still, and on Mont Blanc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sublime Windbag | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

Obviously the way to deal with the problem of the giant pool of contaminated water in Butte, Mont. [AMERICAN SCENE, March 30], is for Congress to declare this "giant cup of poison" one of the Great Lakes. Notwithstanding geographic inability and congressional insanity, it's still a pretty big lake. And since the pool is the "biggest tourist draw in southwest Montana," there's some loot involved too. STANLEY T. DOBRY Warren, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...company town," Butte now has an economy that is balanced, a feat achieved by the residents. These same people have turned the largest environmental disaster of post-Industrial Revolution America into a model for local involvement in environmental cleanup. EVAN BARRETT, Executive Director Butte Local Development Corporation Butte, Mont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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