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...shoots mooses, she cooks mooses, she "crumbles the earth in my hands and smears it on my face and arms. I take off my shirt and pour it over my chest. I toss a shovelful above my head so that it showers into my hair. Cool and dry like powder, it is gritty like sand; it smells like dirt. I can't convince myself that this dirt belongs to me. We have only just...
...much as $570 billion from the world's oil-thirsty economies. Hardest hit will be the less developed countries. With their credit lines stretched to the snapping point, the LDCs may need $70 billion more than international banks are like ly to provide. Result: a potentially smoldering powder keg of political unrest in the Third World...
...small party on Manhattan's affluent Upper East Side, the hostess sets two small trays before her guests. One contains the familiar white lines of cocaine, ready for snorting through rolled-up dollar bills or tiny straws. The other tray also holds lines of fluffy white powder, but they contain something new: a potent form of heroin that has begun flooding the illegal drug markets of New York and other Eastern cities...
...people to the campus of New Orleans' Loyola University. More than 400 attended a second gathering earlier this month in Ithaca, N.Y. The participants spent their time learning how to juggle (concentration is more important than coordination), sew costumes and master the techniques of clown makeup (lots of powder after applying each color prevents smears). They also studied ventriloquism and went to serious lectures by the leading clerical exponents of Christian clowning. "We estimate that about 20% of the participants are ministers or priests," says Tom Nankervis, director of the United Methodist Church's Office of Communication Education...
...apocalypse and, above all, to survive it by providing themselves with sufficient food, fuel, shelter and weapons. Their efforts have given rise to a flourishing survival industry, specializing in everything from newsletters and real estate to two-year food packs containing instant applesauce, dried bacon tidbits and margarine powder...