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...soon debut on billboards, news kiosks, the sides of taxis and the pages of magazines across Europe. There's another treatment featuring a woman tending ridiculously large, genetically engineered roses. ("On Science. On Time.") Also a man, whose company has just merged with another, cowering at his tiny new desk in the corner of the acquiring executive's private office. ("On Business. On Time.") And, um ... if you're having trouble following all this, perhaps it's because the photographs pretty much defy description...
...years old and my parents went to bed two hours ago. I hunch over my dimly lit desk and squint as I pull tiny gun turrets from the sprues of a plastic-parts tree. My room smells of Testor's model glue. I will eventually get so delirious from inhaling the fumes and struggling to assemble this 1/700-scale model of the aircraft carrier Akagi that I will pass out at my desk...
...tiny little ship, no longer than a pencil and no wider than my thumb. But it was as fine and filigreed as the inside of a wristwatch. I painstakingly painted it to look like the picture on the box and then let it sit on my desk for the rest of the semester. Somehow, for me, it still represented Japan, or at least comforted me by evoking my adolescent view of Japan. At the end of the year, when it was time for me to move out of the apartment, I couldn't think of what to do with that...
...Zoellick's office exudes the kind of narcotic Washington class that enforces padded footsteps and whispered conversations. Hard across the street from the White House, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative has the obligatory American flags behind the desk and predictable 19th century prints along the walls. But on a corner table, a surprise: protest posters from ACT UP that say STOP KILLING AIDS VICTIMS BOB ZOELLICK. Zoellick had his secretary pick them up from demonstrators outside his office a few weeks ago. "These must be from before," I said to him when we met last Thursday, meaning that...
...minute interview took place in Bush's office aboard Air Force One as we flew from Andrews Air Force Base to New Orleans. Bush was seated at his wooden desk, which is shaped like a boomerang. The President seemed relaxed during the interview; it was obvious that he had been giving a lot of interviews lately and was in a kind of groove. He leaned over the desk while he answered questions, absent-mindedly fiddling with a cellophane candy wrapper as he spoke, and finally tearing it into little pieces...