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...Like powder after a shower? Save it for your feet. Research suggests that applying powder or deodorant spray to the genital area can increase a woman's risk of OVARIAN CANCER. The worst offender: the sprays, which may up the odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 17, 1997 | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...installation consists of an anteroom where visitors take off their shoes and socks and a U-shaped main room filled with six tons of talcum powder. A single candle placed around the corner from the entrance provides the only light in the dark, dusty chamber, which is filled with the bitter smell of natural gas. Although the work's title warns of an impending explosion, made plausible given the smell, exposed flame and ankle-deep powder covering the floor, the piece seems unable to provoke anxiety in its visitors. It's just too sexy...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: Defining the Politics of Perception | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

...film captures the glamorous, polished look of the '40s: huge shoulders, nipped-in waist, plenty of accessories. It all adds up to plenty of perchandise. Bloomingdale's will open Evita boutiques in nine stores, and Estee Lauder has whipped up a line of makeup: ruby lipstick and white powder in a frankly made-up look. !Viva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BOUNTY OF HOLIDAY TREATS | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...still wonder if he was somehow involved. But absolutely no evidence has been found to link him to the bombing. The search of his mother's house yielded nothing. It would be impossible to make a bomb as crude as the one at Centennial Olympic Park without handling the powder, but no trace of explosives was discovered anywhere on Jewell, in his truck or at his home, even by the vaunted devices used by the FBI that can detect one part per trillion. "They knew within days of going through his apartment that he didn't do it, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STRANGE SAGA OF RICHARD JEWELL | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

Dole doesn't like change much, in himself or the world around him. In his experience, change was often something to fend off; it was born of forces of nature--the weather changed in the 1930s, turned Kansas into powder--or forces of history, the war that injured him. He thinks of the U.S. as a constant, a fixed polar star of unchanged and unchanging values, like duty, honor, country, God. And he is proud of being much the same way. The places he knows best and loves most are not in flux; certainly not Russell, Kansas, not Bal Harbour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTION '96: CAMPAIGN: TWO MEN, TWO VISIONS | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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