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...light brown hair, Erik looks a bit like a shaggy, youthful Kirk Douglas. He is a celebrity now: strangers ask for his autograph, reporters call constantly, restaurants give him free meals. But is his celebrity the circus-freak variety--of a type with the Dogboy and the two-headed snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...light brown hair, Erik looks a bit like a shaggy, youthful Kirk Douglas. He is a celebrity now: strangers ask for his autograph, reporters call constantly, restaurants give him free meals. But is his celebrity the circus-freak variety?of a type with the Dogboy and the two-headed snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...that have sprung up without paved roads, water or sewer service. The homes look like preschool art projects, glued and stapled together from cardboard and plywood and tin. Bootleg power lines drop from overhead wires, loop down to the ground and are held in place by a rock, then snake through the sand to a house. Some wires are live, and arc and spit when it rains. The young women who live here are favored by the maquila bosses for their nimble fingers and obedience. But more than 200 women, many of them maquila workers, have been murdered since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Nueva Frontera: Two Countries, One City | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...Omen Mexican authorities plan to dispense survival kits, complete with snake-bite antidote and rehydration tablets, to would-be illegal aliens crossing the parched U.S. border

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

Maybe in a previous life George W. Bush traveled the land selling snake oil. What ails ya? Nothin' his bottled cure-all wouldn't fix. Naturally, he would be long gone when the mob returned with tar and feathers. In this life some things have changed. Snake oil is out; tax cuts are in. High energy prices got ya down? A tax cut will make the spike affordable. Might lose your job in the slowdown? A tax cut will turn this economy around and save your paycheck. That's the Bush pitch: tax cuts as a nostrum for everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Tax Cuts Pay Off? | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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