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...techniques helped solve many crimes, and in 1969 he began teaching courses on profiling for the FBI. Within a decade, agents who had taken his courses had migrated throughout the bureau, and by the early '80s, profiling had spread to some local police departments. But Teten says his fairly limited notion of profiling--identifying a criminal's personality traits by analyzing the nature of his crime--was expanded too quickly by police who didn't have much training in psychology. Teten thought of profiling as a tool primarily for murder investigations, but it was now being used even in robberies...
Baseball franchises have risen from the dead before. The Braves and Indians eliminated league-low attendance levels in the ’80s thanks to new stadiums and television revenue streams in the ’90s. The concrete monolith known as Olympic Stadium is among the dying breed of domed arenas boasting a stuffy indoor atmosphere, an artificial surface and a retractable roof that could never retract. But when team owner Jeff Loria, a New York city art dealer, decided against renewing his lease on the land earmarked for the new Labatt Stadium and failed to negotiate any English...
...Thailand, insects used to be popular only in the poor north and northeast provinces. But as farmers and laborers migrated to the cities during the economic boom of the late '80s and early '90s, they brought their yearning for six- and eight-legged creatures with them. Bangkok natives were reintroduced to the wonders of savory creepy-crawlies and liked what they tasted. As soon as Kiam Poopaduang parks his pushcart full of insects outside the city's Nana red-light district each night?its sign reads "Amazing Thai Food"?motorcycle taxi drivers and bar girls start to swarm. Four years...
...Fong-Torres writes of Clark: "he had the kind of impact on pop radio in the late '50s that MTV would in the early '80s." Clark gave hundreds of rock stars their national TV debut. He played rock, ballads and gimmick tunes, like Tommy Facenda's "High School U.S.A.," which had at least 28 different regional versions, each with a few dozen school names. Clark made records and, by not playing them, broke them. To get him to play their songs, singers made new versions of their 45s: George Hamilton IV turned "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" (covered, much...
...This is the world of neo-psychedelica, Japanese style. Whether the kids realize it or not, their culture is flashing back to the era of free love, shaggy hair and peace, brother. Whereas speed was the drug of choice for legions of hardworking overachievers in the go-go '80s and early '90s, the current generation is increasingly opting to space out through 'shrooms rather than get wired and tuned in with shabu. With vendors selling the dried fungi in head shops, street-corner stands and even over the Internet, scoring mushrooms has become as easy as buying a pack...