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...they offer presentations on their research? Only then can the Houses be a home for sorts of Harvard activities, from the social hour to the study hall. Then students will be able to meet each other in a variety of different settings, perhaps none that involve blaring music and strobe lights...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Making Harvard Better | 5/11/2001 | See Source »

Mounting an undercover operation in this world without rules is horrid work for your average cop. "It's loud and dark in there. There are the strobe lights in your eyes. Ugh," says N.O.P.D. captain Steve Nicholas. "It's just not an easy thing to find these people." But Templeton found them. For six months beginning in February 2000, he went undercover to at least eight State Palace raves. He and a fellow agent were able to buy 45 hits of ecstasy and five other illegal pills. They also learned from local ambulance companies that from December 1997 to August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecstasy Crackdown | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

Babylon is packed with babies, sexy Shanghai babies. Tonight and every night, Fifi knows she's the sexiest of them all. As the strobe lights flicker and the bass throbs at this Shanghai nightclub, all eyes are on her. Fifi's eyes search the crowd, too, wandering up and down men's bodies, looking for the perfect one. But right now, Fifi is dissatisfied with what she sees. She pouts her bubble-gum pink lips and frowns. "There's nobody here tonight," she says. "Nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Shanghai babies are always on the lookout for something better. They research their stock portfolio. They sweep on their mascara and pluck their eyebrows to craft the perfect face. They play the part of sex kitten with lots of meow, because that's what men want. But the strobe exposes the girls for what they really are. The flashes of harsh, white light strip Fifi's face of her makeup - and her contrivance. In that freeze-frame instant, Fifi isn't a sexy sophisticate, just an innocent girl searching for love. In a place called Babylon, where Shanghai babies pretend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...parts in movies like Braveheart, Splitting Heirs and Frankenstein, but also to an active lifestyle that included acrobatics, martial arts and skydiving. With his body alternating between rigidity and uncontrollable spasms, almost the only physical recreation left for Lawrence was going out with friends to London clubs. Under the strobe lights his thrashing movements could be mistaken for enthusiastic dancing. So clubs became the one place he didn't feel self-conscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecstasy's Dividend | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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