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...BUN NO SAN" (THREE-fourths), says the eager second-grader as he holds up a card with the fraction spelled out in Japanese hiragana script and numerals. Then a classmate selects a segmented triangle that illustrates the fraction. "Atte imasuka?" (Is that correct?) asks the teacher from Tokyo. "Hai," says the class in unison as little hands go up to answer the next question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: (Is That Correct?) In a handful of American schools, first-graders are discovering math and science -- in Japanese | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...Look, A Public Display of Affection/I'm Going to Puke. HONEY. HONEY BUN. LOVE BUG. LOVER BOY. DREAM GIRL...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Cryptic Love Candies | 2/14/1992 | See Source »

Nadja Gould sits in her peaceful blue office at University Health Services, her trademark silver bun piled high on her head...

Author: By E.k. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: Nadja Gould: Counsellor's Counsellor Hits Crises Head On | 9/28/1990 | See Source »

...vain to return. Some of them embarrassed themselves. Some of them got flattened. Boxing experts snicker that there are only two kinds of opponents Foreman can be counted on to defeat. One kind is hooked up to a respirator. The other can be found lying on a sesame-seed bun in the company of pickles and catsup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston, Texas A Slugger and A Dream | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...strip in this collection, Susie Derkins asks if she and her stuffed bunny can play with Calvin and Hobbes, who is drawn as a stuffed tiger until the last panel, when he muses, "Mr. Bun seems comatose. Did you notice?" It is tantalizing to wonder if Watterson will ever give us a look at Susie and a "live" rabbit looking back at Calvin...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: Calvin and Hobbes:Leaping From the Cosmos to Suburbia | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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