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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the hypnotic Chinese pole act, for which the circus is justly renowned, 16 acrobats in swirled leotards scramble up, down and around a set of four poles like a collection of futuristic monkeys. Ann Bernard and Helene Lemay deliver another excellent set with their dance, reminiscent of groundstomping Spanish...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Cirque du Soleil Offers A Vision of a Better Bigtop | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

The typical Maya family (averaging five to seven members, archaeologists guess) probably arose before dawn to a breakfast of hot chocolate -- or, if they weren't rich enough, a thick, hot corn drink called atole -- and tortillas or tamales. The house was usually a one-room hut built of interwoven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Secrets of the Maya | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

Globally, prostitution plays a significant role in transmitting the AIDS virus. In Haiti, once a favored vacation spot for U.S. homosexuals, the virus flourished for years until political turmoil and negative publicity shut down the trade. But in many places the danger has yet to register. "If a young prostitute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitution: The Skin Trade | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

FIFTY YEARS AFTER WORLD WAR II, THE THIRD REICH'S CRACK troops are cashing in. Many Czechs, Poles and other East Europeans served in Hitler's SS but hid their past after the end of World War II for fear of retribution from ruling communist governments. Now that communism is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pension Plan for Nazi Followers | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

On the one hand, 85% of the Harvard professionals who responded to the survey said they had been "successful" at combining career and family. Here, quite explicitly, was the message that companies across America were implicitly handing down last week on Take Our Daughters to Work Day as they invited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Maternal Wall | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

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