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TOILET-PAPER FAIRY. Imaginary figure who works miracles around the house--filling ice-cube trays, putting socks into drawers. See also, Mother.
In Krakatoa (HarperCollins; 416 pages), Simon Winchester takes an event that happened in a white-hot second and expands it in both directions, filling in the backstory and aftershocks to create a mesmerizing page turner. When Krakatoa erupted, at 10:02 a.m. on Aug. 27, 1883, it vaporized a 2...
With $570 billion in assets, up 29% in the past two years, credit unions have grown at about four times the rate of the $8 trillion commercial-banking industry. And as credit unions have steadily consolidated, membership has risen annually, to 83 million clients today. "Banks take the consumer for...
Even in hard-hit Hong Kong, life is gradually returning to normal. Masks are no longer omnipresent, once vacant cinemas are filling up again?and the alleys are once more strewn with garbage. SARS-weary residents are encouraged by the slowing infection rate. "I have started going to karaoke again...
Secondly, the crumbling asphalt walks all over the Yard are awful. Dartboard’s own poor Los Angeles inner-city public high school did a better job of filling potholes. This is especially bad because in this case, Yale shows us up so thoroughly. Their Old Campus is criss...