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...officer noted that police cruiser 211 had been tagged with a bumper sticker reading "No More Prisons...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Weekly Police Log | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

Republicans outside Austin are complaining that Bush is too deep in the weeds of his own operation; a major vendor says Bush okays every piece of direct mail himself. "I thought Al Gore was the one who was writing all the bumper-sticker slogans," said a disgruntled G.O.P. operative, "but it turns out to be W." The narrow funnel to the top slows everything down and suggests the principal has no confidence in his troops--a bad signal to send everyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: How Bush Lost His Edge | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...fueled by oil wealth that somehow misses the great bulk of the nation's 120 million people, a bumper crop of construction cranes pierces the Abuja skyline. The capital remains very much a work in progress. Many governmental functions and satellite offices - like the U.S. embassy, for example - remain a 10-hour car ride away in Lagos. The stark poured concrete design of most of Abuja's buildings contrasts sharply with the lush green palm fronds, reddish earth and mud, and huge distinctive outcroppings of coarse black volcanic rock that constitute the capital's older and more natural skyline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nigeria, Clinton Sees a Work in (Slow) Progress | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...fourth-generation Idaho logger named Galen Hamilton, who is 43, and for the better part of a day we rode in his pickup truck (its bumper sticker: ARE YOU AN ENVIRONMENTALIST, OR DO YOU WORK FOR A LIVING?) along remote logging roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Roadless Lands' Setting the Woodsmen on Fire | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...high schoolers how not to take the SAT. An average student, Joe nails all the easy questions (except for the ones he makes careless mistakes on) and misses all the hard ones. Once students are armed with this knowledge, "What would Joe do?" becomes a question rivaling the familiar bumper sticker query in cosmic importance. On hard questions, you probe the answer choices for the likely Joe Bloggs answer--that is, the most appealing (read: wrong) answer. When you identify the answer Joe would pick and eliminate it, you can guess from the remaining four choices, statistically upping your score...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Points For Sale | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

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