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...police in camouflage gear swept through several dozen Moscow hotels, businesses and banks, hoping to cripple the criminal gangs. In the meantime, citizens are afraid to go out at night; stores have difficulty keeping pistols, Mace and bulletproof jackets in stock; dinner conversations stop abruptly whenever a tail pipe backfires in the streets. "The crime problem today knows no limits," says Pavel Gusev, editor in chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets, who travels with a bodyguard. "In the U.S. your Mafia has already divided up spheres of business, so the bosses no longer kill each other off. Here we have a wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow: City On Edge | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

Bill Clinton enjoys wrapping his lips around an unlit cigar. A top source at a local tobacconist's claims the President "smokes" Hoyo De Monterre Excalibur 1s ... The FDA's David Kessler admits to collegiate pipe smoking ... Anti- tobacco Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) used to be a two-pack-a-day man ... Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia smoke cigars. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is a social cigarette smoker. At Clinton's Inauguration, he's rumored to have bummed a cigarette from Senator Wendell Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puff the Magic Bureaucrat! | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

Specific changes include the installation ofenvironmentally safe pipe lines, the replacementor elimination of many existing airfield pipelinesand the upgrading of the sub-pavement hydrantaircraft refueling system...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Logan Airport to Be Modernized | 7/1/1994 | See Source »

...found over 20 fragments of wallpaper from over the years--really cool stuff," she says. "We [also] just found...an old piece of wood pipe...Archaeologists are going to come next week to look...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: UNDER THE HAMMER: | 6/29/1994 | See Source »

...similar problem came up with my nice,pipe-chewing tutor, scarcely older than I andalready married. As he lit and intricately curledaround his pipe, Mr. Weld would point out how thispoem (any poem) of John Donne's was about sex.SEX?! Oh dear! Holding the gasp, I assumed a blasetone: Oh. Yes. That. Of course...

Author: By Sylvia Maynard, | Title: Class of '44 Grads Reflect on Impact of War on College Life | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

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