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...being taught about homosexuality in school, and has never discussed it at home. "It probably is important, but to me it's not. It's not something I want to be bothered with." To many adults, letting children know about homosexuality legitimizes it. Says Joseph Dickerson, 52, an electrician from Hightstown, New Jersey: "I disagree with teaching a broad spectrum of life-styles. It may have a tendency to sway some kids. When I was a teenager, if someone introduced me to a different life-style, there's no telling how I would have accepted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pride and Prejudice | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

Last Friday, an electrician visited the house to install a security system. When no one answered the front door, he walked around the house, peering through windows. He thought he saw a mannequin sprawled on the floor, until he noticed a splotch of blood by its ear. When police and the coroner broke down the door, they found Cobain dead on the floor, a shotgun still pointed at his chin and, on a nearby counter, a suicide note penned in red ink, reportedly ending with the words "I love you, I love you," addressed, a source said, to Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Never Mind | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...background is no-frills working class. He grew up in Mexicali, where his electrician father installed movie screens. A Mexican-government scholarship sent him to Yale, and there he wrote a dissertation about his country's external-debt crisis. Zedillo then came home to a central-bank job, which paved the way for his appointment as Budget Minister and later Education Minister under Salinas. These days he lives in a comfortable though not ostentatious house in Mexico City, a far cry from his childhood home. With his own five children, Zedillo is an avid mountain biker. Though he has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Inside Steps Forward | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...from where Yuri Khamov waits outside the American embassy in Moscow, an expediter advertises his unwelcome street wisdom: "The Americans let in only those who have sponsors in the U.S.," he says. "Otherwise, they stamp your file with a black stamp, which means, 'Forget about America.' " Khamov, 25, an electrician who wants to settle in Orvado, Colorado, ignores him. Not that the self-appointed expert is wrong: ever since communist control ended, the U.S. embassy has been cherry-picking, allowing only a small fraction of these sweat-stained, hope-driven applicants through. But Khamov and his extended family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Still They Come | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...commission's proposals would increase lighting outside the square's historic buildings to provide aesthetic unity. Assistant City Manager Michael Rosenberg said he is consulting with the city's electrician and plans to begin this project in the spring...

Author: By Margaret Isa, | Title: Commission: Improve Central Sq. | 10/19/1993 | See Source »

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