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...members of a Roman Catholic religious order, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Before his group publishes a new paper, Snowdon carefully makes the rounds of all the convents to make sure the sisters hear the news first. About a month ago, for example, he stopped by the rambling brick convent in Mankato, Minnesota, which serves as the headquarters for one of the order's seven U.S. provinces. "You've got to be good friends before you ask somebody for their brain," he jokes as he arrives, giving an elderly nun a big grin and a hug. At certain times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GIFT OF LOVE | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

Starbucks No. 3--The aforementioned Church St. site. Uncovered brick walls give it a neighborhood feel. Pouting intellectual in corner, young women mumbling about knitting in Austria, yuppies in the window. Good cover for an invasion...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: BEVERAGE DEPT. BRIEFING | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

...village was producing more than $1 million worth of rice and a range of side products, including a famous brand of rice wine. The once impoverished residents were now earning close to $200 a year, enough to begin replacing their mud-and-straw huts with solid brick houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENG XIAOPING SET OFF SEISMIC CHANGES IN HIS COUNTRY. . . | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...then there's that mysterious brick building called Dillon Field House that I used to think hid a giant sports complex inside. Instead, its just a gloomy bunch of administrative offices and varsity locker rooms...

Author: By Chris W. Mcevoy, | Title: MIT Bound? | 2/13/1997 | See Source »

...LOVE MADALYN; APES EVOLVED FROM CREATIONISTS) and "solstice cards" for the areligious at holiday times. Perhaps more important, Madalyn, like many of her clerical foes, became adept at persuading elderly members to leave American Atheists their last bequests. In 1986, when she moved the organization into its current red brick headquarters, she claimed to have paid in cash the full cost of $1 million-plus. Jon Murray, her second son and by then her titular successor, told Wright, who later profiled her in his book Saints and Sinners, "We're accustomed to good food...All of us have nice clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE'S MADALYN? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

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