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...tutors hired for $250 an hour to help prepare for the SATs. This year, helping make Christmas shopping a little less arduous for stressed-out parents, Toys "R" Us is offering a computerized registry so children can roam the aisles making their selections and the store can spit out a list for Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PARADOX OF PROSPERITY | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...Tyson's teeth Bite Me, Part II: in his bout with Evander Holyfield, Iron Mike chomped twice on the heavyweight champ's ear; he lost the fight and, for a year, his license to box. Poor Tyson: he should have tried team sports. Then he could kick a photographer, spit on refs, attack fans--and get a fat contract peddling overpriced sneakers to underprivileged kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TOP SPORTS OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

Edward Ball drives along Sullivan's Island, a spit of beach across the bay from Charleston, S.C., savoring his childhood. There is the clapboard house where he lived until he was 12. Here is the elementary school. "Had my first dance with a girl there," he says. The reverie ends when Ball walks to the end of a pier where the sulfur smell of marsh grass rises, as rank as the tale he unspools. An estimated 40% of American slaves arrived first at this spot. Confused, terrified, usually sick, they spent two weeks quarantined in "pest houses" or onboard ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUTURING THE WOUNDS | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

GROSSEST The grenade launcher that Machines that consume SCENE turns zombies into mounds humans and spit them of quivering, decaying flesh out in bits and pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Dec. 15, 1997 | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...pain constructed by pony-tailed hippies, all you see is a whir of cellophane and custard. When the camera slides down the back of the alien like Fred Flintstone leaving the quarry at quitting time, we can only think of Spielberg's T. Rex--a death blow to the spit-and-steel horror of the original alien beast. Which brings...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fear of Genetics Meets Cellophane and Custard | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

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