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...years, I've watched summer after summer of college age kids flock in masses to the Cape, and rent a house, party and work as ice cream-truck drivers, lifeguards, waitresses and cooks. When one lives in an area as tourist-driven as the Cape, he or she can't help but end up having a summer job during college in a the tourist economy...

Author: By Nicholas K. Mitrokostas, | Title: Dx: Summer Anxiety | 4/9/1997 | See Source »

Narcotics may come through Mexico, but the destination point is in the U.S. [WORLD, March 10]. Authorities in Mexico may look the other way when, loaded with drugs, a plane takes off or a truck passes through, but what happens when it crosses the border into the U.S.? And when it is unloaded? Is it visible only south of the border? Every blind officer in Mexico must have a matching blind official in the U.S. EDGAR BECERRA Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...lest it attract a crowd of Minneapolitans struck by the angularity of the thing, the openness, the vocabulary of liquidity. Minneapolis, not St. Paul, is a mecca for performance artists, people who can't sing or dance or write or act but who can crawl through a pile of truck tires wearing a shower curtain and wave a flashlight and say things. Minneapolitans lean forward and watch them, perspiring, afraid that some subtlety may escape them. St. Paulites look at each other and say, "Whose idea was this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEET HOME, MINNESOTA | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...gangsta rap song. More than 1,700 people crowded into the Peterson Automotive Museum, where the party was being held, and the crush was too much. Around midnight the fire marshal ordered the festivities shut down. Wallace went to his truck. A friend took the wheel of the GMC Suburban, and the rapper got into the passenger seat (he didn't have a driver's license). Moments after they left the parking lot, according to witnesses, a lone gunman in a passing car fired several shots from a 9-mm handgun through the passenger side of the vehicle, hitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHYME OR REASON? | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

Earlier this year, Commission Executive Officer Richard V. Scali held a meeting with many of the city's disposal companies to address several issues of concern, including the repeated violation of Cambridge's noise ordinance--requiring pick-up after 7 a.m.--by garbage truck drivers...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Garbage Disposal Trucks Irk City Residents | 3/19/1997 | See Source »

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