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Yager started Children of the Underground in the late '80s when she parted ways with another underground, based in Mississippi and run by Lydia Rayner. Like Rabun, Rayner loves Faye's passion and deplores her methods. Hiding children is discreet business, but Faye is a moth after the hot lights of news and talk shows. Geraldo, Sally Jessy Raphael, you name a show and she was there in Fabulous Faye getups, ranting not just about pervert dads but at times including homosexuals, Masons, judges and satanic cults on her list of unholy conspirators. She once said 70% of her cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hide And Seek | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

First rule of fraternities: Never call them "frats." After all, as fraternity members rhetorically ask, would you call your mother a moth? Would you call your country a cu--...well, you get the idea...

Author: By Joshua J. Schanker, | Title: GOING GREEK | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...expected to not be able to type. I did not expect that this would so drastically change my life. I did not realize until the past moth how much my existence revolved around a keyboard. Somehow, thought naturally translates into finger movement and words on a screen. This is not an easy habit to break...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: RSI Makes One Re-evaluate Life | 4/14/1998 | See Source »

...first prize in 1979 for On Human Nature, and his second in 1991 for The Ants, a mam-moth volume that served as the basis for the computer game SimAnt...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: Biologist Wilson To Retire at End Of School Year | 9/21/1996 | See Source »

...Brunswick, Canada, declined by 75% from the previous year after nearby conifer forests were sprayed with pesticides that wiped out the bees that pollinate the blueberries. In parts of the Southwestern U.S., excessive pesticide spraying of Mexican cotton fields just across the border has reduced populations of two moth species that pollinate certain cactus; as a result, the cactus flowers have withered and dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FLOWERING CRISIS | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

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