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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most people vent their annoyance simply by making lawyers the laughingstock of the white-collar class. Long after jokes about minorities have become socially unacceptable, mockery of lawyers remains a safe prejudice. Sample: What do lawyers and sperm have in common? Both have a one-in-a-million chance of turning out human. Another: Why did the post office recall its lawyer stamp? Answer: Because people didn't know which side to spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First, Kiss All the Lawyers | 8/16/1993 | See Source »

...avoid the lane next to the curb. Don't leave the car running when you dash into the convenience store. Lock the doors. Keep purses and wallets out of view. "No. 1, be aware," says the FBI's Apple. "In this day and age, it's not safe to unroll your window -- even to give people money at Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell on Wheels | 8/16/1993 | See Source »

More ill-constructed roads greet the driver back in the Square. In order to regain the safe cement of the Broadway Garage, one must turn back up northwards on Massachusetts Avenue and re-enter the tunnel of unbearable noise magnification. The problem is that two other lanes of traffic are also entering the connector from your right, so you must accelerate fast and cross two lanes or end up on your way back to Star...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Don't Leave Home--If You're Not in a Tank | 8/10/1993 | See Source »

...Stine, 49, who turns out a thriller a month and has 7.5 million copies of his 27-part Fear Street series in print, agrees that such books mean no harm. "Part of the appeal is that they're safe scares. You're home in your room and reading. The books are not half as scary as the real world." At the same time, Stine also implies that the real world needs embellishment; his challenge, he says, is "to find new cheap thrills" for his young readers. "I mean disgusting, gross things to put in the book that they'll like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carnage: An Open Book | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

When the floodwaters spread across Wisconsin, state officials begged for help from Washington, but it's safe to say that none of them expected it would arrive by Greyhound bus at 3 a.m., wearing ostrich-skin cowboy boots and missing a suitcase. But then, few in Wisconsin or Washington knew James Lee Witt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Master of Disaster | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

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