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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turned her streetwise walk into a waddle, Moody could attract customers. "Some men are into pregnant women," she notes dispassionately. Her second baby, Cartez, was born on July 2 nine years ago, and Vanessa was back on the street on the 4th, while her distraught mother and sister Debbie took care of the newborn. "I was still bleeding, but I was ready to date," Moody recalls. (And ready to smoke crack cocaine: four of her five babies were born with the drug in their system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life off the Streets | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...turned out, that process lasted the better part of two days--roughly six hours of my time. It took almost two hours just for the very nice tech guy to figure out why the network wouldn't connect to my run-of-the-mill printer. Helpful as he was, the experience bodes poorly for a product geared toward the average, hapless home consumer. While my wireless network finally appears to work, I'd recommend that you don't buy HomeFree until it comes out with a far better instruction manual--and a toll-free help line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Hookups | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Although love is his main subject on Human Being, it is not his only one. The gentle Colours imagines a world without race and asks the question, Would people still be able to find a way and a reason to discriminate? The song was inspired by a trip Seal took to Monte Carlo two years ago. The city was filled with wealthy whites, and the only other person of color he saw was a black street cleaner. The opening track, Human Beings, also deals with a weighty theme: partly inspired by the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sealed with a Kiss | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...York Senator AL D'AMATO (5) called his Jewish opponent, Representative Chuck Schumer, a "putzhead" in front of a group of Jews. It's unsure whether they took it in its Yiddish context (penis head) or as a modern slur (jerk), but one thing is clear: Senator Pothole's campaign collapsed into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oops! The Top Gaffes of Election '98 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Leno was not the only one who got orbital schmooze time with the shuttle crew last week. Glenn also took a call from NASA administrator Daniel Goldin, who relayed a blunt message from Glenn's wife Annie: "You ain't going up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He-e-e-e-re's Johnny! | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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