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...this is not what I really want. It is still exciting to find the perfect sweater at a vintage store in the dollar box. It's more satisfying to find a fabulous cheap restaurant than be a hipster at the latest over-priced hot spot. It's nice to cook, boil water and make pasta sauce. I don't want to slide down the slippery slope. I don't want to be the proper Harvard graduate and get the right kind of job and eat at the right restaurants and drink the right vodka and have the right brand...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: Yearning for a Thrifty Life | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...suit to his body (no, this doesn't make more sense when you see it). Without the money for a bus ticket, Jake has to rely on his smooth-talking savvy to mooch enough rides to get him across the country in two days. In the meantime, he must cook up a way to win back his disgruntled girlfriend who gives up on Jake's selfish ways and takes off with Eddie (Adam LaVorgna), class smoothie (grease and all) and Jake's nemesis...

Author: By Irene J. Hahn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HEEEEERRRRRRRREEEEEE'S JOHNNY | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...Harvard purport to be) dedicating themselves to the systems that will develop the seed varieties and better production techniques to grow more food, develop the packaging to guarantee its freshness, build the roads and the trucks to distribute it efficiently and design the technologically sophisticated ovens to cook it. Business people all over the world are driving all of the these functions...

Author: By Kaustuv Sen, | Title: In Defense of Business Careers | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

Sentenced to die for the 1992 robbery and murder of a Corpus Christi restaurant owner and a cook, Gurule is a man who saw nothing to lose in trying to escape--he was going to be executed anyway. He certainly wouldn't have been the first. More than 480 people have been executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, 160 of them in Texas. Of the 3,500 inmates currently on death row nationwide, more than 450 are detained at Huntsville. It is interesting to note that Gurule was the first to escape from...

Author: By Sujit Raman, | Title: Life and Death in the Lone Star State | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

...home-tech consumers, this holiday season provides a rare bounty. Televisions, digital videodisc players and home computers are better, cheaper and less risky purchases than ever before. Camcorders are tinier; cordless phones more powerful. Half-size ovens cook in half the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1998 Technology Buyer's Guide: All The Best | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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