Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes the borrowing is for keeps. Manufacturers ship piles of clothing to the magazines for their photo shoots. When the garment bags are returned, they are sometimes considerably lighter. "There would be a certain amount of evaporation,'' recalls Michael Borden, a former Mademoiselle style director...
...year-old Hong Kong-based gang known as the Wah Ching has extended its reach beyond its usual lines of business -- murder, extortion, narcotics and gambling -- into the hugely profitable racket of software bootlegging. Police say members of the Wah Ching are using their traditional drug-smuggling routes to ship phony holograms produced in the unregulated factories of China. On April 20, for instance, a Chinese man carrying 29,000 bogus Microsoft holograms was snared by Customs officials as he attempted to enter San Francisco international airport. "The Wah Ching are into everything -- anything that will make money," says...
...located 938 survivors, evacuating the most seriously injured to hospitals hundreds of miles away in Khabarovsk and Okha on the mainland. At the same time, an ice-breaker was battering a path through the three-foot-thick mantle of ice surrounding the island so that a Russian hospital ship could reach the area. Rescuers fear they are running out of time: complicating the sheer magnitude of the damage and severity of the injuries of those still alive under the rubble are the bitter sub-freezing temperatures gripping the area. "We are racing against time, against hours and minutes," said Sergei...
From the lush opening shots of India and the ship to America, seemingly suspended in the velvet night. "A Little Princess" is practically shot through the diamond lens of a platinum camera, on gold-rinsed film. This movie positively drips wealth. Even the wooden planks of the bare attic where Sara is thrust after her fall from grace are examined in lustrous detail by the camera's eye, and of course the opulence that surrounds her before her little bout with poverty is absolutely sumptuous. Reality is suspended as surely as if this were an animated feature...
KEVIN REYNOLDS Costner's Waterworld helmer abandons ship -- the buzz says just in time...