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...potent coffee concoctions, the Pamp, as the regulars affectionately say, brings cultural flair to Cambridge. Flaunting a pastiche of old world southern Spanish design and industrial chic, the one-room subterranean establishment boasts cement walls accented by hot water pipes suspended from the ceiling. Small black lacquered tables clutter the single-roomed cafe as tortured writers sit enraptured in their favorite author's prose. In the back kitchen, two or three waify waiters lounge around the underground den in the standard uniform of black slacks, white button down shirts and skinny black ties. But coffee isn't all that...

Author: By Ariel B. Osceola, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: A Strange Brew at Pamplona: Waiters Wanted, Women Need Not Apply | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...what else. A Trainspotting poster and several homages to R.E.M. cover the walls. Like many college dorms, there is a dart board and a picture of Shaft, a teddy bear on the bookshelf, and a Detroit Red Wings banner. Plants seems at home in his room, comfortable with the clutter, and when guests come over, he kindly offers them a seat on a sketchy futon and a glass of iced...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Throwing a Curve Ball: FM Asks the U.C. Presidential Candidates Questions They Never Expected. | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

When Bush is challenged about his mastery of the material, his response goes straight to his vision of presidential leadership, the argument that too much knowledge can clutter a vision. His experts can sort through the details, he says; it is more important for a President to have strong convictions about where he wants to take the country. The spirit he invokes is that of Ronald Reagan, who, as Ted Kennedy once noted, could forget your name but always remembered his goals. But 1999 is not 1979, Bush's critics reply: the nation is not shuddering through a cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Primary Questions | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...target is a rogue protein known as beta amyloid, which forms the plaques that fill the brain's memory centers; just two weeks ago scientists identified one of the enzymes that are key to its formation. Another is an abnormal variant of the tau protein, which is thought to clutter the interiors of nerve cells with threadlike tangles. Over the coming years, as a new generation of Alzheimer's drugs enters the clinical pipeline, the arguments that rage today over which is more important, beta amyloid or tau, may be resolved. Kosik suspects that both may be critical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Forget About Alzheimer's? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...READY TO TAKE SOME MORE BYTES Software can turn obsolete as fast as Bill Gates can earn another billion, and discarded discs add to the clutter in landfills. GreenDisk in Washington State recycles high-quality diskettes by erasing and reformatting them, making them as good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Eco-Friendly Sampler | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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