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...shave your vagina or penis, can that get rid of crabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where'd You Learn That? | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...shall rid the world...

Author: By Sharon C. Yang, | Title: Deepti Choubey, We Hardly Knew Ye | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

Local tales of woe abound: there's the service-station owner who got rid of his after watching a neighbor lose his house and his car; or the young pizza-franchise manager in a neighboring county who has a criminal record after feeding the machines for weeks with his store's cash. "People have been losing their homes, their cars. Families are breaking up," said Jennings. "I had a client tell me, 'I want you to ban these things. I'm hooked, and the only way I can get away from them is if you take them away.'" So when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Call It Video Crack | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...Jennings may have picked the winning side. The Governor, Republican David Beasley, has called video gambling a "cancer" on the state and has made getting rid of it a top issue as he runs for a second term. This spring's legislative effort to ban the machines passed overwhelmingly in the house, then was filibustered to death in the senate, but is sure to resurface next year. And the state supreme court is on the verge of deciding a class-action suit filed by habitual gamblers claiming the machines violate the state's constitutional ban on lotteries; the decision turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Call It Video Crack | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...about the power of its nuclear blasts and about Kashmir, the Himalayan region that's divided between the countries. The State Department suspects that India, uncomfortable with the condemnation it has received, is trying to goad Pakistan into conducting a test. "The Indians would like nothing better than to rid themselves of this uncomfortable isolation," says a senior U.S. official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nukes: Pakistan's Restraint Makes India Feel Itchy | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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