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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem-free either. Americans have a peculiarly voracious appetite for drugs, and probably no one should weigh in on the debate who hasn't seen a friend or loved one hollowed out by cocaine or reduced to selling used appliances on the street. But if drugs take a ghastly toll, drug prohibition has proved itself, year after year, to be an even more debilitating social toxin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kicking the Big One | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...campaign, Clinton said, "History has shown that you can't allow the mass extermination of people and just sit idly by and watch it happen." Between then and now, about all that's happened is that the number of idle threats has come to rival the death toll. But I really mean it this time, Clinton insists: If the Serbs don't cease their strangulation of Sarajevo, fire will rain from the air next week -- more than five months after the very same pledge was first uttered by NATO last August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: From Sarajevo to Needle Park | 2/21/1994 | See Source »

Still, after all of this scandal and all of this national attention, the anticlimactic result is inevitable: both Harding and Kerrigan will do terribly at Hamar. Being at the center of the mass media menagerie can't help but take its toll on one's psychological state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Both Sides Lose In Wounded Knee II | 2/18/1994 | See Source »

...Cryobank--with offices near Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley--recruits college age donors, who are paid $35 per sample. Each sample then produces several vials of semen, which are sold to infertile couples for $135-$165 each/ Vials can be ordered by catalog, using a toll-free number, and are shipped overnight. Indeed, ordering sperm from the Cryobank isn't all that different from ordering clothes from J. Crew...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Dollars for Sperm | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

Fine also said he is not sure whether he wantsto put in the effort. The constant criticism hefaced as a council member has taken its toll, hesaid...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Fine Not Ruling Out U.C. Bid | 2/15/1994 | See Source »

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