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Less fortunate are other creatures that get in the fishermen's way. Dorothy Childers, executive director of the Alaska Marine Conservation Council, notes that fishing boats aiming to catch pollack dump halibut and salmon over the side and that the value of wasted fish in the Bering Sea is equivalent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ill Tide Up North | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

Thornton, you see, wants to have his box of chocolates and hack it to pieces, too. Directing his own self-scripted performance (did he cater it, too?), Thornton plays Karl Childers, a mildly retarded mental patient who, in his late thirties, is released back into the small Southern town he...

Author: By Nick K. Davis, | Title: Thornton's One-Man Show a Gem | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

The movies' most memorable new face doesn't belong to a gorgeous thing named Gwyneth or Liv. It isn't all that pretty or even that new, seeing as its possessor, actor-auteur Billy Bob Thornton, is 41 and has been kicking around films for a decade. But those who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: BILLY BOB...OLIVIER? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

Like Ruth, Sling Blade's Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is a brain-damaged naif taken in by strangers. When he was 12, Karl killed his mother and her lover. Now, 25 years later, he is released from a mental hospital and befriended by a boy (Lucas Black) who could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NO STEVE BUSCEMI PART? | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

Market pressures and the demands of the Russian economy may eventually make the route financially viable. That is a moment many environmentalists dread. Tankers are likely to be the chief users of the route, and oil spills could do unimaginable harm to arctic ecosystems. Dorothy Childers of Greenpeace points out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIBERIA: THE TORTURED LAND | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

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