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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With earrings now dangling from the lobes of stockbrokers, bartenders and truck drivers, what's a hip guy to do to distinguish himself? Well, for starters he could paint his fingernails olive, khaki and black. And, apparently, he does. Last year Urban Decay decided to advertise its unisex grungy nail colors--"Does pink make you puke?"--in magazines with male readers, like Spin, Rolling Stone and Interview, instead of in women's magazines. Nationwide, Urban Decay rang up first-year sales of $5 million, at $11 a bottle--a lot of them to guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOVE YOUR NAILS, JACK | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...When the truck bomb went off in Oklahoma City 2 1/2 years ago, virtually everyone in the country learned of it instantly and sat gazing at the television, immobilized by shock. Everyone, that is, except Terry Nichols, the man accused of helping Timothy McVeigh build the bomb. Nichols didn't have cable service at the time and his TV reception was lousy, so he didn't know about the incident until the next day. While the whole wired world was rapt by the tragedy, the alleged accomplice was hanging around his house in Herington, Kansas, as if April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT NICHOLS REVEALED | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...told the agents that like others who resist government control, he no longer used a Social Security number. He refused to sign a form called "Interrogation: Advice of Rights" because, he said, the word interrogation reminded him of Nazis. But he did give consent to a search of his truck and house, saying that there was nothing in either location that could be construed as bombmaking materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT NICHOLS REVEALED | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...cannot see why he would do it," the summary quotes him as saying. Nichols also said that on April 18 he and McVeigh attended a weapons auction. That is the date that eyewitnesses at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas, say McVeigh apparently left with the Ryder truck used in the bombing. However, Nichols made much more significant statements about McVeigh that were very damaging. On April 16, Nichols and McVeigh drove from Oklahoma City to Herington together. The agents asked Nichols if McVeigh had said anything during the trip that would make Nichols believe McVeigh was involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT NICHOLS REVEALED | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

Then one day, while riding his bicycle to the hospital, Chandra ran over a nail, and his tire went flat. He wheeled his bicycle to a roadside stall, where the repairman was busy retreading a truck tire with vulcanized rubber. Once his bicycle was fixed, Chandra raced to the hospital and consulted with Sethi. Soon Chandra returned to the tire shop with an amputee patient and a foot cast. He asked the repairman if he could cast a rubber foot. "He agreed,'' Sethi says, "and refused to accept any money once he found out why we were doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE $28 FOOT | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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