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...country of few roads, little clean water, one doctor for each 12,000 people, few jobs and trash as landscape, my pledge of 1 million gourdes (U.S.$67,000) to the General Hospital of Port-au-Prince would do more for the people than the $65 million the U.S. has used to train the thugs and thieves of Haiti's police force. RUDEL SIMON III Jamestown, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 10, 1997 | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...built Blockbuster and trash collector Waste Management has acquired 36 dealers for about $550 million in stock. He's also opened seven AutoNation and three ValuStop used-car lots. Wall Streeters expect him to spend $5 billion in three years buying dealerships, consolidating yet another mom-and-pop industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BIZWATCH: Mar. 3, 1997 | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...raccoon was acting aggressive," said Baker. "He came out of the shrub and challenged me. I tried to prevent him entering the dorm and so I held out a trash barrel which he ran into...

Author: By Alexandra S. Morrison, | Title: Rabid Raccoon Caught in Courtyard | 2/28/1997 | See Source »

...Instead of flipping pet fuzz balls into the trash, Crolius saves them and turns them into clothes....Imagine wearing a sweater from a dog you love, rather than some anonymous sheep you'll never meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...Catholic hospitals. Intensely, not to say neurotically, pious, he went to Mass as often as five times a day. For the last 40 years of his life he dwelled in a small rented room on Chicago's North Side, from which he would timorously sally forth to collect street trash. After his pauper's death, hundreds of empty Pepto-Bismol bottles and nearly a thousand balls of string were found in his room. He had no friends and talked to himself incessantly in various voices. He did, however, have a secret life of disconcerting size and visionary intensity. Its traces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: A LIFE OF BIZARRE OBSESSION | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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