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...hate, or at lest distaste, for the more comfortable things in life can never hurt while you are running an 11-days race in the freezing cold. "You can't think that you could be in a nice, warm bathtub," Butcher advises...

Author: By Camille L. Landau, | Title: Racing the Iditarod | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

...among the leaders of the computer equal-rights movement, however, some old assumptions die hard. In Deborah Brecher's Women's Computer Literacy Handbook, a book-length version of the San Francisco course, computer programs are likened to cookbook recipes, data flows from a buffer like water from a bathtub, and bits and bytes are pictured as shoe boxes full of tiny babies who sit to represent the binary digit 0 and stand to represent the digit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: From Programs to Pajama Parties | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...gave this opportunity to express a personal concern. Since I'm going off to college next year, my mom says that I've got to get rid of my pet elephant. She's tired of him tracking mud into the house, and he's getting too big for the bathtub. Also, now that he's been fired from the car wash, he's not bringing in any money. But Renaldo and I have become quite attached, so I was wondering if it's possible for him to attend Rice...

Author: By Sara O. Vargas, | Title: Yale Juniors Publish College Essay Anthology | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

HARVARD THEATERGOERS have seen their fair share of bizarre dramatic mutations--these days, no one dares balk at Shakespeare staged as a Sid Vicious rock opera or Brecht in a dormitory bathtub. Unfortunately, original student-written plays never seem to find equal stage time...

Author: By Deborah E. Copaken, | Title: Good Shepard | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

...House by occasionally sneaking out after dinner to stroll the streets of downtown Washington. Rather than complain about the frigid air conditioning in King Faisal's guesthouse on a visit to Saudi Arabia, Julie writes, her mother spent the night trying to keep warm by huddling in a marble bathtub filled with bedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julie Nixon's Tribute: A daughter's view of Pat Nixon | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

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