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Longing for a touch of elegance in your office? Had your fill of plastic mouse pads? Then you might want to step up to Lextra's MouseRugs ($20 at www.mouserug.com and museum stores). Patterned after Bokhara, Indian and Persian rugs--and decorated with fringe--MouseRugs are made of nylon fibers that feel cozy and help keep dirt from gunking up the mouse ball. Matching floor rugs not included...
...pages; $35). Tanenhaus' account, essentially sympathetic, is patient, admirably balanced and fascinating in its rich detail. On the great litmus question of postwar politics--which of them was telling the truth?--Tanenhaus is clear. Walking again through all the familiar elements of the case (the Woodstock typewriter, the Bokhara rug, the prothonotary warbler, the famous Pumpkin Papers), Tanenhaus shows, if anyone still doubts it, that Alger Hiss was lying...
Chambers testified that he gave Hiss and three other agents Bokhara rugs in January 1937 as gestures of appreciation for their undercover work. Hiss admitted receiving a red oriental rug from Chambers, but said it was in 1935 and was partial payment for a debt. Two other recipients told the FBI that they had received their rugs in early 1931. Moreover, a rug expert hired by the defense established from a description on a sales slip that Hiss's rug was apparently one of four that had been bought by a Communist agent for Chambers in December...
...hall to watch the telly or drifted into one another's open cells for an hour and a half of convivial chatter before lights-out. Favorite gathering place for D block's intellectuals was a cozy yellow-and-primrose-painted cell with a 100-book library, a Bokhara rug and a medieval print of St. Paul. There, over coffee and aphorisms, Convicted Spy George Blake conducted his soirées, teaching a bit of Russian or Arabic to his fellow inmates, discussing world affairs, or philosophizing on the art of espionage. On that rainy night, the soir...
...central Asian heartland, around fabled Bokhara and Samarkand, cancer of the mouth is a common consequence of chewing nas-a mixture of tobacco, lime, ashes and cottonseed oil. But nas chewers have far less lung cancer than Soviet cigarette smokers (the government is working on an improved filter). Cancer of the esophagus is most frequent in parts of central Asia and Siberia, where a favorite beverage is scalding hot tea, sometimes dosed with pepper to give it an extra kick...