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...romantic merger with Mottola, but the tabloids, both in English and Spanish, haven't been quite so kind. She's been portrayed in English publications as a young Latin soap star positioning herself to be "Mariah II," while Spanish publications have printed as many pictures as they could obtain of her publicly nuzzling her older beau - elaborating how much money and influence Mottola has. The conclusions were implicit: Mottola chose another gorgeous younger woman, but this time he picked a foreign one to avoid the sort of problems he had with Carey (who conducted bitter public arguments with her "starmaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mrs. Mottola Nobody Knows | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

Occasionally, SAS sells hard-to obtain products that are necessary for the projects in the column to amateurs, which gives a crude estimate of the number of people who are attempting the projects described. The most popular column demonstrated the phenomenon of audio illusions, which are roughly analogous to their visual counterparts; 700 copies were sold...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Helping Small-Time Scientists Answer Big Questions | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...injected, generating a high as intoxicating as that of heroin. So popular and addictive is OxyContin these days that it has stirred up a blizzard of a crime wave through the towns of Calais and Bangor, say drug counselors and police investigators. People are using bogus prescriptions to obtain the drug, or they are smuggling the pills across the nearby Canadian border. "Three months ago, we had needles show up outside the middle school," says local drug counselor Carrie McDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Potent Perils Of a Miracle Drug | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...newspapers and other organizations sue to obtain the ballots and do the count themselves, you will see exactly what I mean - a hundred claims and counterclaims as to what the result was, or might have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unity, Vote Counts and Other Illusions | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...Zero Factor legend began back in 1813, when William Henry Harrison was governor of the Indiana Territory. His prime task as governor was to obtain title to Indian lands, enabling settlers to press forward into the wilderness. The Indians didn't seem to agree with his task, and at the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812, Harrison and his troops killed the great Indian leader Tecumseh. Reportedly, Tecumseh's brother, The Prophet, was so distraught over the slaying of his beloved brother that he laid a curse on William Henry Harrison, "and all who follow him." Twenty...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: The Zero Factor | 12/14/2000 | See Source »

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