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...perm that involves gluing lashes to a cotton roll and exposing them to curling chemicals for 20 minutes. But be careful; safety questions remain about some of these procedures. The Food and Drug Administration has not approved any permanent dyes for the eye area, and some states outlaw them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyelash Enhancers | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...Texas. Alone among the states, Texas operates its own electricity grid, which makes it less vulnerable to the various bottlenecks in the national system; it imports less than 1% of its power. Like Pennsylvania, Texas didn't require utilities to sell off their plants, and it didn't outlaw long-term contracts. Says state senator Steve Wolens, who co-authored the deregulation bill: "We learned in California that you can't deregulate and keep the government's fist around the market's throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which State Is Next? | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...ambassadorial candidate on the grounds that he was openly gay? Personally abstemious, he banned alcohol from the Governor's mansion during his eight years in office and vetoed a bill allowing Sunday alcohol sales, and yet his fifth largest campaign contributor was Anheuser-Busch. He has worked fervently to outlaw all abortions unless the mother's life is at risk, and yet his website touts his record and priorities as Governor and Senator and makes no mention whatsoever of abortion. What do you make of a man who is caricatured as Cotton Mather but who is known among his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ashcroft Battle: The Fight for Justice | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...prospect of a Catherine Zeta-Jones with the mind of a Stephen Hawking something we should celebrate or outlaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Engineering: What Should the Rules Be? | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...glass church across the outback. In Jack Maggs (1998), Carey produced an engaging variation on Dickens' Great Expectations. And he is up to new tricks in True History of the Kelly Gang (Knopf; 352 pages; $25), which purports to be a first-person narrative written by Ned Kelly, the outlaw who terrorized and enchanted Australians during the 1870s and who remains something of a national hero and legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sympathy for An Outlaw | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

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