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...swished the ribbed plastic glass, and the reconstituted orange juice (more bitter than Tang and without that cool futuristic aura) lapped up the sides and hung there evenly like paint. They really did leave those O.J. tanks full all night...
Charge card-industry officials decline to say how much they are losing to skimmers--in part because they don't want to scare customers out of using their plastic. But an analysis of industry-published figures suggests that skimmers reaped about $125 million last year, and Secret Service agents suspect that the number is actually higher, with much of that plunder going to international crime rings. "It's not unusual," says Regan, "to see a card compromised in New York City or Washington and the numbers used overseas, in Taiwan, Japan or Europe, within 24 to 48 hours...
...devastating picture, Crissy, Dean and Linda Damm, daughter Crissy looks up at us from the bed she shares with her father and mother. On the shabby dresser beside her there's a hash pipe, a Pepsi bottle and a plastic statuette of the Virgin Mary. Her sleeping father's arm is wrapped around her, but his affections are probably a mixed blessing. At the center of the picture is the face of a girl literally hemmed in by a world she seems appalled to have realized is hers. She gazes upward from the debris with an expression somewhere between foreboding...
...SHIELD--A tissue heat-sealed to a plastic sheet covers the hand to prevent unseemly blow-throughs and germ exposure...
...ORTHODONTISTS No more metal mouth, thanks to 3-D simulation programs that will crank out a series of disposable, clear-plastic "aligners" to shift your teeth into position. Already in clinical trials, this technology is geared for adults, so all you gap-toothed prepubes will have something to look forward...