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Houston Chronicle examines the exploitation of thousands of young people in the magazine clearinghouse industry; finds that young people are recruited to sell magazines door-to-door with promises of exciting travel and high commissions, but once they join a traveling crew, they are often abused by managers that use cult-like techniques to keep them working and cheat them out of their earnings; agents tell of being raped, of going hungry and of being stranded without money, Aug. 19 - 21, 1992.