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...predicts, then, that the current economic slowdown would have the most visible effect on a store like Crate & Barrel, or on costly Square restaurants...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Square Businesses Stay Strong Despite Slow Down | 4/11/2001 | See Source »

...Samara owners, distant relatives of the sister of the artist's widow, "just wanted to get rid of it," says another art historian who also saw the painting in Samara. For years, they had hidden it from bandits-at one point in a kgb safe, at another in a crate of potatoes. They were convinced that whoever kept the painting met with misfortune, and with good reason: the young man who brought the canvas to the bank disappeared for days afterward only to resurface in a battered, confused state, the victim of a shakedown by racketeers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dark Deal in Russia | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...Help! No One Left Me a Big Crate of Supplies Without matches, a flag almost the size of Texas, tarpaulin, twine and a knife, what does one do for shelter and fire in the Australian bush? In Queensland, where the nights are reasonably warm, Lilley says Aboriginal people traditionally used a low, semi-circular windbreak of shrubs or tree boughs "with an open fire and your dog or dogs if it was cool or cold at night. A three-dog night is really cold." One piece of advice the Kuchas haven't heeded: Don't construct your shelter under eucalyptus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: These Survivors Would Be Eaten Alive in the Real Outback | 2/15/2001 | See Source »

Harvard Square is not a homogenous place, Levitan says. Crate and Barrel's concrete and glass structure, Gnomon Copy's art-deco facade and the Lampoon's playful brick building all have equal place in the square, he says...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: harvard architecture stands as a testament to the times | 10/17/2000 | See Source »

...followed by an international public outcry, led chiefly by children, when it turned out that Willy in real life was Keiko, a sick and far from free whale. In January 1996, UPS helped pick up the tab for flying him in an ice-water-filled crate to a new home in Newport, Ore.--a $7.3 million pool, four times the size of the Mexican tank, with pumped-in, 37[degrees]F seawater deep enough to dive in. The pool was built with contributions from Warner Bros., the Humane Society of the U.S. and cell-phone tycoon Craig McCaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Go, Keiko, Go! | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

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