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...allowing wires from the outside world into their houses. They can't use electricity from public-utility grids either, which you would think would mean having to buy a new cell phone every two days. It turns out, though, that while the Amish shun cars, they are actually pretty clever about jury-rigging car batteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next ... With The Amish | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

Wall Freckles are a quick and clever way to decorate a child's room. These movable stickers are backed with low-tack adhesive and can be cut, colored in, layered and reused without damaging surfaces. They're available online at modernseed.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style: A Stitch In Time ... | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

...Value Trust has beaten the S&P 500 stock index for 14 years running. A brilliant polymath whose intellectual passions range from chaos theory to Wittgenstein, Miller has trounced his rivals by thinking differently. But lately the investor, who is based in Baltimore, Maryland, has looked a tad less clever. In the past two years, oil and gas stocks surged as the price of oil nearly tripled, to $70 per bbl., yet Miller missed the entire runup. "It's a mistake we should not have made," he says, and he's paying for it. With Value Trust down 2.2% this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill's Bad Bet | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

...nice piece," and "a good chap." She has a grim wit and not a shred of reticence The hero failing, her other men ar many, including a Princeton Jew and a Spanish bullfighter. The story, such as it is, comes from the eunuch, Jake, who is very generous, patient, clever and, of course very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Sad Young Man | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...supporting the Solomon Amendment, called the dispute an issue of “fundamental moral principle.” He countered the arguments of a friend-of-the-court brief filed by a group of 40 HLS professors, calling their argument against the Solomon Amendment “too clever by half.” He added that a “compelling argument” could be made that the government’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy—which prohibits gay men and lesbians from...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Experts Debate Army Recruiters | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

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