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Sitting on the blue vinyl flooring of her Bangkok hut, Jacky leans her bare back against the plank wall, her dragon tattoos glistening with sweat as she trims her fingernails with a straight razor. It has been two days--no, three--without sleep, sitting in this hut and smoking the little pink speed tablets from sheets of tinfoil stripped from Krong Tip cigarette packets. Now, as the flushes of artificial energy recede and the realization surfaces that there's no more money anywhere in her hut, Jacky is crashing hard, and she hates everyone and everything. Especially Bing. She hates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...Jacky, cooped up in her squalid little hut, her mouth turned down into a scowl and her eyes squinted and empty and mean. She looks as if she wants something. And if she thinks you have what she wants, look out. She slices at her cuticles with the straight razor. And curses Bing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Demons | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...hall." In the November election, the battleground was competing ballot propositions. Prop L, advanced by artists and activists, would have protected artists' spaces from dotcom takeovers, while Mayor Willie Brown's Prop K would have set less stringent limits on new office development. Both propositions lost--L by a razor-thin margin. But the people may be gaining the upper hand. In December's district runoff elections, the 11-member board of supervisors swerved sharply to the left, upsetting the mayor's politically moderate, growth-friendly power base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Garden | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...Razor Kickback Scooter company--whose products strongly resemble patents issued to Ginger inventor Dean Kamen--instructed its employees not to talk to the press regarding recent developments...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Invention May Be Scooter with Fuel-Efficient Engine | 3/8/2001 | See Source »

...squalid little hut, her mouth turned up into a vicious little scowl and her eyes squinted and empty and mean. She looks like she wants something. And if she thinks you have what she wants, then look out. She slices at her cuticles with the straight razor. And curses Bing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need for Speed | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

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