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Pimps aren't generally known by their given names, and the 14 alleged flesh peddlers arrested in Atlanta last January were no exception. Law-enforcement officers hauled in "Playboy," "Worm" and "Poochie," among others. But while the suspects were busy being charged with 226 federal crimes in one of the biggest strikes ever against purveyors of underage prostitutes, they were most curious about a name most of them had never heard before. "Who," they asked, "is RICO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pinch on the Pimps | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

Pimps aren't generally known by their given names, and the 14 alleged flesh peddlers arrested in Atlanta last January were no exception. Law-enforcement officers hauled in "Playboy," "Worm" and "Poochie," among others. But while the suspects were busy being charged with 226 federal crimes in one of the biggest strikes ever against purveyors of underage prostitutes, they were most curious about a name most of them had never heard before. "Who," they asked, "is RICO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: The U.S. Attorney: Pinch On The Pimps | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

That Jesus wants to fight for America bears witness that, after centuries ?of a lifestyle set in stone, the walls of Batad are crumbling. Teenage big-city dreams, low-yield rice crops, worm erosion and tourism have all taken a toll. Despite unesco World Heritage Site classification, many terraces are in poor repair and protection efforts have been ineffective. Tourist impact is predictable: Batad's handful of caf?s and restaurants feature pizzas, and villagers don traditional costumes and head-dresses for photographs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happily Stone Walled in the Cordillera | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...After shoving Mick Dundee and the Crocodile Hunter down your throats, we deserve it. But I really can't find it in my heart to excuse CBS for Episode 2's immunity challenge, in which the contestants must eat "true Aboriginal food, what they call bush tucker." The mangrove worm, the wichity grub, the bug and the shellfish are all fair enough, says Ian Lilley, of the University of Queensland's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Unit. But cow brain and the lining of a cow's stomach? Kids, there were no cows before the white man came along. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Survivors Would Be Eaten Alive in the Real Outback | 2/15/2001 | See Source »

...human genome has a larger percentage of junk DNA (50 percent) than the genomes of the mustard weed (11 percent) or the worm (7 percent...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Journals To Publish Genome Data | 2/13/2001 | See Source »

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