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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year is not shaping up any better. In Corpus Christi, Texas, last month, arsonists burned from one of the city's abortion clinics, along with four neighboring businesses in the same building. A new tactic is to spray the interior of clinics with butyric acid, a chemical that ruins carpets and furnishings and leaves behind a revolting stench. During one night last week, five San Diego clinics were made a stinking mess. "It smells like rancid meat and a sewer together. It's awful," says Ashley Phillips, whose WomanCare Clinic was one of those attacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Doctor Down, How Many More? | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...dependency arises when patients stop using the sprays, vessels become dilated, causing more pollen than before to come in contact with IgE. This produces a reaction more violent than if no spray had been used...

Author: By Steven G. Dickstein, | Title: ALLERGY ATTACK!!! | 3/16/1993 | See Source »

Simmering student discontent at the Law School is coming to the fore, with a mysterious group of vandals calling themselves the "Sojourner Truth Squad" spray-painting graffiti on the walls of a tunnel on the campus...

Author: By Rajath Shourie, | Title: Law School Graffiti Addresses Diversity | 3/5/1993 | See Source »

Preparations for the 15-second scene began at 3 p.m., when a truck with the motto "There's no business like snow business" painted on its side started to spray shaved ice in order to make fake snow...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: Film Crew Takes Over Plympton | 2/26/1993 | See Source »

...addict with a history of irrational behavior. As Gahl approached, Jackson abruptly opened fire with his shotgun. He listened to the wounded officer plead for his life, then pulled the trigger twice more at close range. Fifteen minutes later, the gunman, having disguised his face and beard with silver spray paint, held up a grocery store. When the counterman was a little slow emptying the cash register, Jackson blew him away. One of the most vicious crime sprees of the '80s had begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Close Range | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

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