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...only hours after delivery. Republicans, led by New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, quickly trumped the campaign against "drive-through deliveries" with their own legislation against "drive-through mastectomies." And soon G.O.P. rank-and-filers such as Georgia Congressman Charlie Norwood, a dentist, and Iowa's Greg Ganske, a plastic surgeon, were out ahead of most Democrats in fomenting a broader assault on managed care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Play Doctor | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...When a forerunner of the giant company bought out a local pie plant in 1979, the writing was on the wall for any prospective local competitor. One rival, frustrated by the pie-slice prohibition, tried something especially bold last year. She mashed up her pies, put the fragments in plastic cups and called them cobbler. No trouble from the pie police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cherry Pie Monopoly: Sliced! | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...find them at Eckerd's drugstores and Pilot gas stations. The TracFone is sort of a cellular "Saturday-night special": pony up $99 and walk away with a cheap but effective phone with 60 minutes of calling time. When that runs out, you just buy more time on a plastic card. Such "prepaid" services are good for low-volume users or those with poor credit, but beware: you must buy a $30 card every two months or lose your service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell Phones At 7-11? | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...full-moon Friday night, and Jennifer, 25, a hard-core loker (smoker of methamphetamine, known as crank) has been wide awake around the clock for almost four days. She isn't yet seeing plastic people, shadow men or transparent spiders--just three of the fabled hallucinations of the Billings, Mont., crank scene, a hyperstimulated subculture sickeningly rich in slang and folklore. But she is feeling pangs of remorse about her three-year-old. On Monday, when she left her parents' house, where she has been living since dropping out of college, she promised the daughter she calls "my angel" that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

When asked how he's staying away from the needle, Justin produces a plastic medicine dropper and pokes his arm with it. "Calms me down," he says. "I quit smoking the same way, by sucking on a crayon." Like so many other Billings geeters--yet one more slang term--Justin is a teller of wild tales. He shows off the sunken veins in his arms and describes how he once had to gaff his shot of crank--inject it straight into his jugular vein--while watching himself in a rearview mirror. "The jugular," he says, nodding earnestly, "the only vein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crank | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

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