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Dates: during 2000-2009
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WASHING WATER INVENTOR: SURBEC-ART ENVIRONMENTAL Surfactant Enhanced Subsurface Remediation sounds a tad complicated. It's basically just cleaning dirty water. SESR is a process that begins when surfactants, nontoxic elements used in soap, are pumped into a groundwater supply contaminated with oil. They effectively wash the aquifer clean and are then recovered and reused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will They Think Of Next? | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...jury" the lawyers were addressing here would be likely to tear them a few new orifices if they went all Dylan McDermott in this courtroom. (And note that the unprecedented SCOTUS tapes turned out to be so titillating, so entertaining, that the major networks didn't bother bumping their soap operas for them. Court TV stuck with the Rae Carruth murder trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The SCOTUS With the Mostus | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...they are in this state today," says Scher, "it leaves the politicians with little to do but mud wrestle at times like this, not for the sake of their party causes but for the sake of blind, individual ambition." America, you've tuned in to Tallahassee!, a TV soap opera about rich political white people behaving badly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Woman on the Verge of Certifying | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...Showtime had a hard time recruiting actors from big agencies, fearful of their clients' being typecast as gay. ("Yeah, I can see how that hurt Billy Crystal's career," sneers Showtime president of programming Jerry Offsay, referring to Crystal's groundbreaking role in Soap in 1977.) Several fashion designers (of all industries!) even refused to have their products placed in the series. The producers eventually cast almost all unknowns, with the exception of Sparks, a former Talk Soup host on E! who concedes he had "some long talks" with his agent, and Cagney & Lacey's Sharon Gless, who pleaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: It's Here, It's Queer Get Used To It | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...pessimist/cynic opts for the tiger, I suppose. The optimist/romantic votes for the lady. I have a sappy, soap opera kind of mind, I regret to report. I decided immediately that the princess would have done the sweet and selfless thing, and, like Rick Blaine sending Ilsa Lund off with Victor Lazlo on the Lisbon plane at the end of "Casablanca," would have sacrificed her own happiness, swallowed her regret, and withdrawn in a fog of nobility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Out. Take a Break. Play 'The Lady or the Tiger' | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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