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While trying to straighten out LuLing's chaotic house, Ruth comes across a sheaf of papers written in her mother's graceful Chinese calligraphy. She recalls that her mother had given her a few such pages earlier, which are stuffed in a desk drawer. Ruth hires a translator and vows to read the whole batch of what her mother remembered to write down before she began to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Joys And Sorrows Of Amy Tan | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

Tucked away in an unremarkable industrial building on the outskirts of town is a little machine about the size of a three-drawer filing cabinet. There's a curious Willy Wonka look to it. Feed a bit of metal powder into its maw, and after a moment of whirring and digesting, it spits out, say, a valve for a diesel engine or a gear for a car transmission or a pump component for a hot tub. It's an odd bit of industrial alchemy to watch--mere dust transforming itself into highly refined hardware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Factory For A New Age | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Although comprehensive campaign finance reform is the only real solution, I'm looking forward to the race in 2002, when the district will have been safely redrawn, the national money spigot directed on other places and Monica's dress stashed safely at the bottom of a drawer. Then, the voters in the 27th district will no longer be pawns in the continued controversy over impeachment and will have to share less of their political voice with the likes of Verizon and Dreamworks...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: For Sale: One Seat, California | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

...make for great lyrics. And regrettably, the songs on Never Enough Time stumble through incoherent, seemingly random lines like "A rock thrown through/The rear window/They took my socks" in "Smash the Car" and "I keep trying to clean my room/There's a coffee cup in my underwear drawer" in the title track. So while surely a pleasant enough listen in Club Passim or on a walk through the Square, Nate Borofsky's Never Enough Time will likely be relegated to the closet corner. C+ -Stacy A. Porter...

Author: By Arts Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Albums | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...Dalkon papers will be among the law school's largest collections, occupying about 185 linear feet of drawer space...

Author: By Ross A. Macdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Law School Acquires Famed Tort Case Papers | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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