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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it comes to dividing the U.N.'s attentions between different conflicts around the world, only numbers should matter. "Where can we save more lives?" should be the only question. Not too many people are being saved from starvation, exposure, and the spray of machine guns while U.N. forces loll around in their home countries and strategically important but militarily dormant areas...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Ignoring African Genocide | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...various relatives, even finding himself homeless at one point and living under a bridge. His budding artistry and iconoclastic attitude didn't win him many fans in high school; instead, he attracted beatings from "jocks and moron dudes," as an old friend once put it. Cobain got even by spray-painting QUEER on his tormentors' pickup trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Never Mind | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...like a rather insignificant crime. Others congratulate the Singaporean government on its impending human pinata-fest. More than one stodgy middle class American who has had the antenna ripped off his car has said, "All I know, Geraldo, is that Fay kid sure won't be picking up any spray-paint cans any time soon...

Author: By Martin Lebwohl, | Title: Singapore's Teenage Pinata | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

When Michael Fay spray painted automobiles and threw eggs at passing cars, he wasn't expecting his actions to become the new hot topic for Primetime Live or The New York Times...

Author: By Hallie Z. Levine, | Title: What Price Order? | 4/12/1994 | See Source »

...construction, and everybody is an entrepreneur. On a visit with American journalists to the Great Wall, where you can now get a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, two middle-aged former Marxists share their experiences of trying to make it big in the new China. One is marketing a spray said to kill hiv, the virus that causes aids. The other is trying to develop a Buddhism theme park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to the Wild East | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

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