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...there was a recipe to the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s newest exhibit, it’d probably go something like this: Take an onion. Flatten it. Enlarge it a thousand times. Add every color and texture. Bake at 350º. Let cool for five to 40 years, then try to find the original layers of the onion again...

Author: By Bari M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Instant Stratification | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...shoot wildly at the shadows flitting through the battle chaos. "Dammit! It's civilians mixed with enemy," he shouts into his radio. "Make sure they're carrying guns before you engage." The Air Force has responded to his distress call by sending over a B-52 bomber, which could flatten the entire village, killing plenty of civilians. Turner gets on the radio again and implores the bomber crew to hold fire. After making a few passes and dropping flares, the warplane streaks away. Eventually Afghan police turn up and begin a house-to-house search in the area. Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in the Shadows | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...good news at the gas pump masked underlying trends that were less encouraging. The prices of non-energy items rose .3% in March. Medical costs led the way, with a 1% increase. Experts expect energy prices to flatten out soon and thus predict that inflation will rise from the grave. Washington Economist Michael Evans, for example, forecasts that consumer prices will rise at a 5% annual rate during the second half of 1986. INVESTING Distant Stocks, Instant Trades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: May 5, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...those who find that crunches are not enough, the L.A.-based label Not Your Daughter's Jeans has invented a jean that will flatten the stomach with a high-waist fit and clever engineering. At $88, the Tummy Tuck jean may be the quickest way to eliminate inches as well as personal trainers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Diet-Free Denim | 6/19/2005 | See Source »

...life and work under an authoritarian state. Whatever his motives, Chen has given one regime a slap in the face, while presenting the other with a highly visible test of its values, humanity and independence. You can bet the political pragmatists are working overtime in Canberra and Beijing to flatten out this bump in the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fair-Weather Friends? | 6/15/2005 | See Source »

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