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spends his childhood dismembering local animalsand pets and propping their heads on stakes in hisbackyard? Is everyone sexually molested at eightby a neighbor? Okay, so it's fairly normal to pickup men, drug them, and bind their naked bodies, asDahmer did to several people before his anticsturned murderous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bits of Sex And Violence | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

...doubt government propaganda. When given the chance to talk to a foreigner, they invariably ask, "Why is ! Bush punishing the Iraqi people? Why does he hate us?" But when one young woman, robed from head to toe, asks that question, a group of men get out of a pickup truck and stop her from speaking. When they turn their attention to a nearby government official, an older man hustles her away, out of trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncle Saddam's Land of Terror | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...with her along the beach. After exchanging kisses, he testified, the couple had two sexual encounters -- though the romantic mood was broken when he mistakenly called her "Cathie." Unable to shake Smith's story, Lasch resorted to expressions of incredulity that two people who had met in a notorious pickup joint could be having sex only a few hours later. "Well, Mr. Smith, what are you? Some kind of sex machine?" she asked. Some law students are buying tapes of her four-hour cross-examination of Smith to learn from her mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palm Beach Trial | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...generation, Jones never went past the sixth grade. "I can write my name and my address and stuff like that, but I cannot spell hardly anything," he says. He now lives in Virginia and has been searching for work around the region for eight months. Recently he drove his pickup truck five hours to Tennessee to try for a job on a road crew. At the construction office he was asked to fill out an application form, but it was beyond his ability. So he took the form and retraced his five-hour drive back to his wife Wanda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor The Curse of Coal | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...economy's spring pickup apparently was "Gulf War-related" --boosted by national euphoria after the victory over Iraq--"and not really an indication that the economy's fundamental problems had been licked," said Robert Dederick, chief economist at the Northern Trust...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Unemployment Rate Worsens | 11/2/1991 | See Source »

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