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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which are commonly used in oil drilling, dip them in glue and roll them in buckshot," he explains. "Then you would set them off in the middle of a group of Iraqis. To make homemade plastic explosives, you would cook a mixture of diesel oil and powdered soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...York founded Project Street Beat, a neighborhood organization that trolls the Bronx, visiting the places where teenage prostitutes gather. It offers free medical treatment and counseling, hands out sandwiches, clean clothes, "bleach kits" for sterilizing needles, and "dignity packs": Ziploc toilet kits containing a toothbrush, toothpaste, a comb, soap, a towelette, condoms, tampons and sanitary napkins. Sometimes the workers drive the kids to a local McDonald's for a snack and a chance to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York City A Beacon On Lonely Street | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...changed radically since Carson's day. "Low-impact camping" rules mean skipping the traditional campfire unless the fire pit is cleaned and the ashes buried. Opened food must be consumed on the spot. An informal "30-second rule" applies to spilled food: eat it fast. "Smellables" such as soap, toothpaste and tomorrow's rations, all of which can attract bears, are loaded into a burlap bag after dinner and strung over a 20-ft.-high cable. Nighttime hygiene is discouraged; a freshened-up camper in a sleeping bag is yet another smellable. Breakfast is scheduled soon after a groggy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cimarron, New Mexico Bears, Bucks And Boy Scouts | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...year-old and the strength of an ox; and one very spooky giant. Cut the hype, lower the expectations: Twin Peaks is not the second coming. But it is a damn fine TV show -- playful, unnerving and, despite all the mystical mumbo jumbo, more involving than any soap opera since the early days of Dallas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 3, 1990 | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

HOARDING. Stores have been battered in recent weeks by waves of panic buying ; that have periodically cleaned shelves of sugar, milk, flour, matches and other staples. As a Moscow housewife sheepishly confesses, "My kitchen is loaded with cereals, and my bathroom is piled with soap. I can barely turn around in my apartment." The hysteria often reflects fears about the future, but it creates immediate problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Give Us Our Daily Bread | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

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