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...movie features Jason Lee as John Plummer, a well-meaning uncle who promised his niece, Noreen, that he would pay for college once she was admitted. Noreen, played by Tammy Blanchard, lives in a trailer park with her unemployed mother...

Author: By Maria S. Pedroza, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Stealing Harvard' Opening A Flop | 9/17/2002 | See Source »

...have suffered from this disorder since I was a child, and my life has been hell, even with four years of college. Many people who are bipolar live badly, without much money or any kind of career. We are mostly members of the underclass, tenants of trailer parks and people who do menial jobs. It is not easy. We are not, like bipolar author Lizzie Simon, part of the middle class. Sorry, but the happy ending she wrote about is simply not true for most of us. Manic-depressive illness usually ends badly. ALBERT BARR Seneca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 9, 2002 | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

Three National Guard soldiers open LIVE TO DRIVE's trailer and poke about his cargo as a customs inspector, his navy shirt defiantly crisp in the pounding heat, peers at the paperwork and peppers the man with questions. The driver answers stoically, in halting English. Scrap aluminum. Picked it up in Quebec, due at a recycler in Missouri. Heading down I-75, hoping to get there tonight. The inspector appraises the man's story and body language and waves him on for final processing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Inspector: Manning The Bridge | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...most suspicious cargoes. So in December, Anderson's unit acquired a Star Wars gizmo called the Vehicle and Cargo Inspection System (VACIS), which bombards truck containers with gamma rays to produce an incredibly detailed image of what's inside. The VACIS, which takes 45 seconds to scan one trailer, is ideal for finding hidden compartments and has helped Anderson's team find everything from drug stashes to smuggled coconut milk. Overall, seizures on the bridge have escalated sharply since September. The take includes 550 lbs. of primo marijuana, more than 5,000 ecstasy tablets and 13 million tablets of pseudoephedrine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Inspector: Manning The Bridge | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...talk shows hosted by Isaac Mizrahi and Carrie Fisher, respectively, women's cable network Oxygen has dispatched ice-cream trucks to cruise the streets of New York City and Los Angeles and give out specially labeled popsicles and vitamin waters touting the coming broadcasts. Procter & Gamble sent out a trailer of elegant, air- conditioned Porta Potties, complete with hardwood floors and aromatherapy candles, to state fairs last summer to extol the virtues of Charmin toilet paper. Bottled-water producer Evian paid to repair a run-down public pool in the London neighborhood of Brixton and tile the bottom with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S AN AD, AD, AD, AD World | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

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