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With the U.S. deluged by drugs, the accessory trade has become a multibillion-dollar industry. The profits are high -- a crack pipe that costs 3 cents to produce can retail for $8 -- and the risks of jail are low. Though a 1986 federal statute makes it a felony to import, export or conduct interstate trade in paraphernalia, no federal law bans its manufacture. Moreover, while all states except Alaska have passed laws to control the sale of paraphernalia, the crime is typically a loosely enforced misdemeanor. "These guys simply do not face an equivalent risk for the harm that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountains Of Vile Vials | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...then it was too late. The accordion proliferated like the South American killer bee, joining the family of base instruments that includes the comb and tissue paper, the bagpipe and the exhaust pipe. Today an estimated 75,000 accordionists can be observed running amuck across the U.S., competing in squeeze-offs. In self-defense, they are banded together in associations presided over by the likes of people named Big Lou. It would not surprise anyone to learn that a certain Big George laces himself into the accordion harness and knocks out a couple of choruses of Boola Boola when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lady Of Spain, I Abhor You . . . | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

Collins said she is a Sun Dancer--someone who performs a traditional ritualistic dance and carries a sacred pipe...

Author: By Jon E. Morgan, | Title: Female Chiefs Discuss Concerns | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

Slow Turtle was assisted by a pipe carrier from his tribe named Pussough, who expressed ambivalence at seeing the artifacts that had once been an integral part of the lives of his ancestors encased in glass in a museum...

Author: By Benjamin Dattner, | Title: Native American Opens New Museum Exhibition | 4/3/1990 | See Source »

...sound can re-create the full atmospherics of the movie theater, from the scream of jets passing overhead to the seat-shaking rumble of helicopter gunships. To ensure that what the actors say actually comes out of their mouths, models with the Dolby Pro Logic feature isolate dialogue and pipe it to a speaker mounted directly below the TV screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Wants to Wait for HDTV? | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

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