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Stepping through the door, one enters a schizophrenic barber shop. The single aisle has counters on either side: one sports old-fashioned toiletries, while the other is a condensed CVS. This is the place Harvard gentlemen shop for for an elegant shaving-cream brush (real beaver-fur brushes sell for $40 to 100). The store will also satisfy any student obsessed with hair care: over forty different hairbrushes are discreetly displayed behind glass...

Author: By L. MARIKA Landau-wells, | Title: shoppin | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...that on the average we are highly intelligent. Atheists have unusually high numbers in academia and science. This is why so many of the more outspoken atheists have joined to defend science and reason in the classroom from creationists, anti-science postmodernists and all those who would conveniently brush aside or suppress scientific findings that they find disagreeable...

Author: By Derek C. Araujo, | Title: An Evil Atheist Conspiracy? | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

...suddenly, without ever having taken an economics course and less than a month into my first brush with investing, I was on a hot streak...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Catching the Fever | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

...Agents of the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms armed themselves with semiautomatic rifles and bulletproof vests as they searched Rudolph's trailer and poked cautiously under neighbors' porches and in their barns. Helicopters clattered overhead, using infrared scanners that can detect body heat amid brush and darkness. And two bloodhounds named after TV detectives, Colombo and Quincy, were flown in from Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Manhunt | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Stop, baby, stop." Here was one place where an "in turn," as it happened, referred to "a rock filled with clockwise rotation," as opposed to, not a special prosecutor, but an "out turn." Nearby was a whole museum of curling--well, a couple of display cases, containing a signed brush, a 19th century crampit, a polishing machine and all 10 issues of the now defunct Japanese magazine Happy Curling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Hear Them Roar | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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