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...look forward to all week during boring mornings at school or dull afternoons pumping gas. And as they ride massed together, you can almost feel the surge of pride oozing out of them, intimidating other drivers to veer out of their way, even truckers hitting the brakes as the gang roars past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need for Speed | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...great term? Say it with me--biiiinge drinnnnnker. Doesn't it just roll off your tongue, conjuring up images of parties where the walls ooze alcohol, where keg beer flows like a Niagara down the stairs, where Bluto and Flounder and all the rest of the Animal House gang hold court? Frankly, doesn't it just scream debauchery...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: A Toast to Binge Drinking | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...Apple Gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would You Pardon Them? | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...that's just a mild reprimand compared with the enthrallingly deranged The Red-Wolf of 1995. Gorgeous Elaine Lui, part of a terrorist gang that has seized a cruise ship, shoots a woman in front of her young daughter. Later, after Elaine is set on fire (the wages of sin and all), her partner-in-evil bundles the little girl in dynamite and leaves her hanging from the ballroom chandelier. What the hero doesn't know is that the button to detonate the tnt is on the sole of the kid's right shoe?so that even if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yuen Wo-Ping, Martial Master | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...floor or on tables, surviving on fast food. Those who balk are raped, beaten or burned with cigarettes. A 19-year-old Moldovan woman rescued recently from Kosovo reported not seeing daylight for a month. "I never thought this was possible. These people are animals," she said. One Albanian gang branded its women with tattoos to prevent them from being stolen.Lately, the practice has surfaced in the Balkans in a particularly brutal form. Bosnia, Macedonia and Yugoslavia, once mainly source countries for women lured into the trade (during the Kosovo refugee crisis, traffickers combed the camps for "recruits"), have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Slavery | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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