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...very happy to see that they don't allow halogens. I have questions about the safety of halogens. I hate halogens," said Debbie, a class of 2001 mother who asked that her last name be withheld for her daughter's sake...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FDO Prohibits Use of Halogens in First-Year Dormitories | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...from their futile armed resistance into the political game. In the past two years, a steady stream of people, tired of the deprivations of life in jungle villages like Kdep Tmar, have been defecting from Khmer Rouge control. Pol Pot may even have tacitly approved his trial for the sake of the survival of his movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DARKNESS OF CAMBODIA | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...NAFTA treaty is not going to fix Mexico's economic problems. Free trade is behind the worst aspects of Mexico's current crisis. I hope for the sake of all the regular folks in Mexico, Canada and the U.S. that the Cardenas victory will at least begin a period of questioning the idolatry of the international free market. EMILE M. SCHEPERS Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 11, 1997 | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...just for argument's sake, that you have been bitten by the Elvis bug. You dye your hair black, don a white rhinestone-studded jumpsuit, curl your upper lip into a passable sneer and venture forth. You start the world's 481st Elvis fan club. You print up personalized Elvis stationery and Elvis T shirts, and start a Web page with photos of Graceland. You throw Elvis-themed parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOVE ME LEGAL TENDER | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...smoking sets you apart--literally. At restaurants we are seated back by the kitchen door, where we dine to the music of busboys clattering silverware into milky dishwater. At work we smoke huddled in the rain and snow, risking pneumonia for (we are told) the sake of the public health. The unintended consequence of each new restriction has been to make smoking a badge of honor, a sign of one's refusal to give in. And now, with last week's agreement--with this consensus arrived at by America's cynics and pols and buttinskies--the attractions of smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARDON ME IF I (STILL) SMOKE | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

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