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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...economic miracle and rise after World War II. But the Trabi was more a mockery. It had a plastic body and was driven by a two-stroke engine that ran on a cocktail of oil and gasoline that emitted a putrid stench as it rolled with a characteristic clackety-clack along East German roads. (Read about the Beetle in TIME's most important cars of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Trabi, East Germany's Clunker, On the Comeback? | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

...sound of the Olympic games for me has always been John Williams' Olympic Fanfare and Theme. But since this spring those strains have been replaced by the clack and crumble of workmen with pickaxes leveling a wall outside my window at dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Beijing | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...Cambridge policemen, an MIT English professor, the Au Bon Pain chess champ, and a smattering of residents and visitors enjoying Boston’s 4-0 win over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Ben Affleck, David Leary, and Car Talk’s Click and Clack have also joined this convivial crowd in previous seasons. Although Cardullo’s has been broadcasting Sox games for eight years, it was only five years ago that this storefront gimmick turned into a tradition. Dennis Coveney plopped a folding chair onto the cobblestones, and soon other members of Red Sox Nation...

Author: By Kirsten E. M. Slungaard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Park Your Chair in Harvard Square | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...would say that “Seinfeld” had a social conscience, but I do know—thanks to their unintentionally ironic blog, Grey Matter—that the writers of “Grey’s Anatomy” intend to affect broader commentary. Zoanne Clack, the only writer on the show who holds an M.D., lists five reasons why watching “Grey’s Anatomy” isn’t a waste of time. She explains herself with platitudes like, “I’m not talking medical things...

Author: By Kyle L. K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pull the Plug on ‘Grey’s’ | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...picture of the fish-tetrapod transition, which conjured up the image of creatures like the modern lungfish crawling out of water onto land. That picture certainly didn't fit Acanthostega, whose short, flimsy legs were ill equipped for terrestrial locomotion. Rather, according to University of Cambridge paleontologist Jennifer Clack, Acanthostega was an aquatic creature that used its limbs and lungs to make a living in water. And that scenario makes sense because it sets up conditions for natural selection--the force that powers evolution--to favor transitional life-forms like the fishapod, with its funny wrist and five digits encased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Cousin The Fishapod | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

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