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Dates: during 2000-2009
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FOOTPRINTS Shoe marks in anything from dust and dirt to blood or mud can be collected. To pick up a shoeprint in dust, experts use a sheet of electrified mylar that picks up dust like a big piece of Scotch tape. Soil tracked by an assailant could reveal where he has been or where he lives. Prints may also reveal the size, style and make of a shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body of Evidence | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...Spain, alcohol is as much a part of the culture as it is in the United States, but Spanish youths know better than Americans how to regulate themselves. To drink beer at night is considered almost unmanly—rum and scotch cocktails are the only things anyone drinks at the bar and disco. And yet people stay within their limits so nobody ends up passed out or vomiting in the gutter...

Author: By Nicholas F. B. smyth, | Title: Drinking, European Style | 10/2/2002 | See Source »

...CELEBRATE YOUR OWN ETHNICITY Whether you are Swedish, Scotch-Irish, Native American, Italian or a mixture of many cultures, show your children that everyone comes from somewhere--that every culture has its own language, foods, music and customs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Bicultural Kids | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...prospect of running his family's liquor empire, Edgar Bronfman Jr. has faced his share of skeptics. One of the first, in fact, was his grandfather Samuel, a Russian immigrant to Canada who advanced from Prohibition bootlegger to spirits magnate, owner of a portfolio that included Chivas Regal Scotch and Captain Morgan rum. In a mid-1990s documentary about the family, Edgar Jr. recalled his grandfather saying, "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. I'm worried about the third generation." Such doubts didn't seem to faze Edgar Jr., who years ago declared, "I'm not going down in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spiriting Away a Fortune | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...when France Telecom said it was severing relations with the German phone operator for refusing to dismiss CEO Gerhard Schmid. INDICATORS A Toast With The Most Scotland may not have made it to the World Cup, but they are there in spirit. Gains in South Korea and Japan helped Scotch whisky become the world's most widely exported liquor, breaking the billion-bottle mark as the market grew 6.4% to $3.4 billion. Take that, England. Consignia Consigned After nearly two years and 2 million dollars, Consignia - the meaningless word used to rebrand Britain's Post Office - is being returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next New Thing? The Old Economy | 6/16/2002 | See Source »

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