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Word: latex (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...risk of deforestation. To deal with emergencies, the state is expanding a system of airports in remote villages. Viana is promoting a ?forest economy? that profits from the wilderness without destroying it. In one town, for instance, a condom factory is being built that will provide a market for latex collected by local rubber tappers. By capturing more of the value of the rubber trees, Viana hopes to ward off logging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Disaster | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

Behind a surgical mask to filter the odor, police chief Willie Huff tells two officers in latex gloves to use riot shields and ease Big Earl to the floor while the others wrap blankets around him and slide him outside. A tall man, Huff cautiously leads the charge, clutching Earl, hoping not to hurt him and praying not to get sued. He knows mental patients don't belong in small-town jails, but where else can they go? What else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Natchez, Miss.: The Chief and His Ward | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...English language is not equipped for the task. It was supposed to be a disembodied part of a woman, but it was more like part of a really expensive Halloween outfit to which someone had haphazardly taped a lock of Dweezil Zappa's hair. It felt like wet latex, smelled like wet latex and looked like something Sigmund Freud might have used to make a very twisted point. I figured it was designed for men without hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cybersex Be Better Than Real Sex? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...Zappa hair until the people from SafeSexPlus explained that I was supposed to stick the suction cups on my computer monitor once the "cyberdildonics box" popped up. This box could be made darker or lighter by Alexa's controlling the box on her screen and would make my latex gizmo vibrate at higher or lower frequencies depending on how much light she decided to give me. I don't know what sexual experience was supposed be replicated by a vibrating disembodied female body part, but I didn't want any part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cybersex Be Better Than Real Sex? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...talked some more, and she told me she'd named herself after Billy Joel's daughter, which I thought was in bad taste. Then I realized, looking down at the giant latex pudendum jumping around my desk, that I wasn't in a position to comment on matters of taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Cybersex Be Better Than Real Sex? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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