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...wares, their pimps lurk in cars in the shadows, calculating the night's take. But not all the pimps are gangsters. Often it is Father who sits in the backup car or Mother who negotiates the deal for her daughter. Little Brother may appear with a sponge and a pail of soapy water to wash a client's car for an extra...
...heroin shooting galleries, where, according to one New Haven study, more than 90% of needles are contaminated with the AIDS virus. Addicts in these galleries can "rent" recycled needles either for money or for an exchange of drugs. After each use, addicts clean the needles in a pail of water set out every morning by the operator. The water starts out clear, but it is bloodred by afternoon. "We don't know who all got the virus," admits the proprietor . of one such establishment. By exchanging needles, the project also reduces the number of contaminated needles that find their...
Four years later, dragging the judges and the sport behind them, they exemplify a bold, contemporary approach to ice dancing. While the two top couples from the former Soviet Union favor exacting, classical lines, Isabelle likens the Duchesnays' effect to "picking up a pail of paint and going splash, splash." The appeal of the two styles is strikingly different. "One is a Picasso, the other a Renoir," says Isabelle. These days a jarring number of other competitors also want to be Picasso...
...life," says Gup. "You lie on your back on a metal sled, and the distance between the floor and ceiling is never greater than 40 inches. You're in utter darkness -- except for the light on your hard hat. You eat your lunch on your back with your pail on your belly. Twenty-four hours after you get out, the insides of your nostrils are still black with dust...
...Just weeks later, two toddlers who had accompanied a woman into a clinic examining room pricked themselves with a syringe that is believed to have been used on an AIDS patient. The youngsters plucked the needle from the covered red bucket into which dirty syringes are tossed; the pail was on an open shelf under a sink...