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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...developed in Israel and is used by U.S. agencies for drug interdiction. It is being sold in a $49.95 kit for home use, which includes two spray cans designed to detect traces of marijuana or hashish and one for cocaine and crack. While Shertest Corp., the New York-based distributor, considers the test accurate, it suggests that any positive result be confirmed by a laboratory. The tattletale hues do not necessarily prove drug use; they only indicate that drugs had touched the tested surface. "We do not test people; we test objects," explains Sidney B. Klein, Shertest's general manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Just Spray No | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...face of it, Jennifer and her husband Jeff appear to have a perfectly comfortable income. Their combined salaries -- he is a machinist in the microwave division of Varian; she is a night clerk for a local food distributor -- total about $37,000 a year, middle class by any standard for a family of four. But since they are ineligible for most support programs, they face many of the same dilemmas as minimum-wage earners: the hard decisions, the small indignities and the rough edges of approximate poverty. "They say we're middle class," says Jennifer, "but this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: What $152 A Week Buys | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

Arachnophobia has been billed by its distributor, Buena Vista Pictures, as "the first thrill-omedy," a novel combination, one supposes, of the horrific and the humorous. While the film does combine these elements, its success lies not so much with an original synthesis as with prudent use of time-proven moviemaking techniques...

Author: By Garrett A. Price iii, | Title: What's Giant, Venezuelan, and Introduces Itself To You When You Open a California Coffin? | 7/27/1990 | See Source »

...pipes for marijuana) to the spoons used to shovel cocaine into a user's nostrils. One such businessman, Stephen Pesce, is essentially a vile version of a Horatio Alger hero. Pesce, now 34, apparently made pot pipes as a teenager in the 1970s for a Long Island, N.Y., paraphernalia distributor now known as Main Street. He eventually took charge and built the business into one of the largest head-shop suppliers in the U.S., grossing more than $10 million annually, some experts believe. In 1988 federal agents seized $10 million of Main Street's inventory and arrested Pesce, who awaits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountains Of Vile Vials | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

Geffen had considered a sale to Time Warner, the current distributor of Geffen Records, or Britain's Thorn EMI. Though MCA paid a premium for Geffen's Top 40 talent, the company gains needed clout in the booming record business -- adding pop-rock power to its strong roster of black and country artists. At least in the music business no one is talking about "labels for less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Top Dollar For Top 40 | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

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