Word: oiled
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton's decision to allow exploratory oil drilling in Utah's red-rock country ? just one year after he set the land aside as a national park during his re-election campaign ? may land him once and for all in the green lobby's dog house. "This is just another stab in the back that has been handed the environmental community," says TIME Denver bureau chief Richard Woodbury. "Combined with the recent debate over logging roads, this situation is bound to aggravate its anger even further...
Gary Panter, designer: Pee Wee's Playhouse. The chamber is a concrete island floating in a burning sea of oil. Speakers are lowered onto the floor by their ankles through a skylight. Seating is quite diverse...
...deification of Diana began. Mourners at St. James Palace swore they'd seen Diana in an oil painting there. Around the world, the public absorption with Diana's death made itself felt. The U.S. Senate passed a resolution honoring her for "compassion and grace". The Ecuadorian Congress unanimously passed an anti-paparazzi law providing legal protection for people whose photographs "appear in the media without their prior consent and are damaging to them." And in Uniontown, Pa., two men were charged with harassment and disorderly conduct for allegedly attacking a photographer who was trying to take pictures of a doctor...
Called "internal body carriers" by the Drug Enforcement Administration, mules can carry up to one kilo of cocaine or heroin in their intestines. Before ingesting the drugs, they fast for several days, then swallow cooking oil for lubrication. Next, the oblong packets are placed in their esophagus with pliers and shoved down their throat. If a condom rips or is corroded by stomach acid during a long flight delay, the drugs burn, slowly, through the internal organs. On arrival the mules are taken to a hotel room by gang members and given large doses of laxative. "The most I have...
...MOHAMMED KHATAMI for favorable signs. It's all part of a modern version of Rudyard Kipling's "The Great Game"--the 19th century competition between Russia and Britain for influence in Central Asia. Today the prize is access to the Caspian Sea's pool of 200 billion bbl. of oil. But tapping that will require construction of the pipeline network. The U.S. hopes Iran will recognize that it is in its own interest to become a player so that it will qualify for much needed Western investment...