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That's why an unusual mix of environmentalists, farmers and politicians is furious that Loder is using public water for a private lake. "This lake is the poster for water waste," says Buford Crites, a city councilman in nearby Palm Desert. "When much of the West is already suffering incredible problems from lack of water, here we are literally wasting it." The Coachella Valley water district appealed to the state water-resources control board to intervene, but the board refused; California law permits recreational use of Colorado River water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth Inc.: Water War | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...office even looks like a frat house. Porno tapes line the bookshelves. Opie's desk, littered with such research material as Maxim, FHM, Stuff and Seventeen, is flanked by two Britney Spears posters. Anthony's desk, littered with a Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen book, video and T shirt, sits under a poster of the twins. "Look how hot they're getting. And that's an old picture," Anthony says. On further inspection, he dismisses Mary-Kate as the priss. "Ashley is the goer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Talk A Little More About Breasts? | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...poster in the airport reflects the president's paranoid state. It depicts a suit-wearing, two-headed man taking a hammer to the word DEMOCRACY. On one head is a top hat emblazoned with the U.S. flag; on the other a Union Jack. "Sanctions Destroy," it reads. "Save Liberia." The poster is pasted in the windows of the four shops in the waiting area and on the outside of the door of the first class lounge. I asked the man behind the bar in the food shop if he had any copies to spare. "Send me a T-shirt from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia: The Significance of a Poster War | 7/3/2001 | See Source »

...then all hell broke loose. An airport security officer grabbed the poster from my hand and demanded to know where I got it. I pointed to the bar and said that I had come to an agreement with the manager. He marched me into the shop and confronted the man behind the bar. They shouted at each other and a small crowd gathered. A well-dressed Liberian man stepped in and said his piece: "He's from outside, let him take our message to the west. That's what we want." "We do?" asked the policeman. "We want people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia: The Significance of a Poster War | 7/3/2001 | See Source »

...wouldn't want what Shu Qi has. On any day, at any hour, almost anywhere in Asia, whether you're window-shopping, daydreaming in a bus or cruising the Internet, you're likely to see her face and the luxurious mouth that is its trademark. She's the poster girl for French fashion house Lanvin, beer babe for San Miguel and pitchwoman for Lux Soap, Coca-Cola (Japan) and Red Earth cosmetics (O.K., that contract just lapsed). In a six-year career, the 25-year-old Taiwanese seductress has made no less than 45 movies. One of her first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shu Perstar! | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

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