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...Soviet Union. After being released, immigrating to the U.S. in 1985 and becoming a citizen, he embarked on a crusade to publicize the nightmare of China's prison system. Using a hidden camera, he once sneaked into a Chinese tanning factory and filmed naked prisoners standing in vats of toxic chemicals. Last year, while he posed as a wealthy American searching for a kidney for a relative, the BBC filmed transplant recipients who told Wu that their organs had come from executed prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAUGHT IN THE CROSS FIRE | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...problems with "flag" are nothing compared with the problems in defining what exactly is to be prohibited. Perhaps out of a desire not to unfairly single out arsonists--who, like polluters and toxic-waste dumpers, are no doubt represented by a powerful, well-funded lobby--the proposed Amendment says, "The Congress and the States shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States." But Representative Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, objected that desecration has religious overtones. Someone may think Congress was trying to sneak by the First amendment and establish a religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY FLAG, YOUR SHORTS | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

Experiments performed with toxic materials arecarried out under the protection of a fume hood, adevice which carries harmful fumes out of thelaboratory by means of a chute and large ceilingfan...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Harvard Real Estate Merges | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

Amid the latest hoo-ha and brouhaha about toxic culture, a media maven is led to wonder: Has Bob Dole ever read his kids a fairy tale? Or sung a nursery rhyme? Or seen a classic Disney cartoon? In Hansel and Gretel, Jack and Jill, Bambi and Dumbo, the obsessive themes are death and dismemberment. These graphic horror stories tell toddlers that life is a dark forest where parents get killed and kids get eaten. As purveyors of Dole's "nightmares of depravity," Warner Bros. ain't a patch on the Grimm Bros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CASPER THE FRIENDLY CORPSE | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

...Telly, tests HIV positive. Which means Telly also has problems. As Jennie tries to find him, she learns that he plans to exercise his deflower power on naive young Darcy (Yakira Peguero). Will Jennie find Telly in time, and if she does, will she care enough to prevent this toxic encounter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FESTIVAL OF LOST CHILDREN | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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