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...time not very long ago when you had the same worries. You just took the leap of trust, a very important word. You trusted your child to take the next step of growth. And I think it's really important because society is founded on trust. That's the glue of society, of culture, the glue of intimate relationships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are You Turning Your Child Into a Wimp? | 6/23/2008 | See Source »

...Potter, which was written by a woman who wanted to write serious novels until a wizard entered her train compartment and made her write wonderful ones instead. You owe the existence of the Post-it notes in your binder to the 3M researcher who tried to find a stronger glue and changed the world by failing: he found a weaker one instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graduates, Go Forth and Multiply! | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...Obama was once rubber to Hillary Clinton's glue, his former pastor's inflammatory remarks and his San Francisco gaffe on working-class bitterness now are sticking to him-fast-as polls show white blue-collar voters harboring serious doubts about his candidacy. So on Monday, a day before the primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, the last question Obama took at a "town hall" meeting got to the heart of the matter. Diana Allen, 39, an employee of LED light manufacturer, CREE, who identified herself as an undecided Democratic voter, said the most important thing for her was victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's 'Electability' Code for Race? | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...models are also more practical than preserved specimens because they maintain their shape long aftert the organic remains would have decayed.The creation of the exhibit involved many hours of meticulous labor in order to restore the creatures and prepare them for display. The failure of the original glue used to hold the models together after over a century was one of the largest obstacles the organizers faced. The MCZ hired Elizabeth Brill, a glassworker, to clean the models and repair glue failures, reattaching separated fragments.Ford also notes that the MCZ did not clean with any solvents because some...

Author: By Athena L. Katsampes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Glass Sea Creatures Emerge Out of Deep Storage | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...this is all rather charming. How sentimental it is to think of all of us putting aside our papers and problem-sets in favor of arts and crafts. But beyond the globs of glitter glue, the behavior is bizarre: housing is completely arbitrary and most definitely unequal across the board. The obligatory River Run many freshman blocking groups take part in on the eve of the lottery announcements in order to ward off chances of being “Quadded” (put in one of the three Houses a ways up Garden Street) is testament to this. (The next...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: The Collective Identity | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

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