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Books have weight and texture; they make a pleasant presence in the hand. Nothing smells as good as a new book, especially if you get your nose right down in the binding, where you can still catch an acrid tang of the glue. The only thing close is the peppery smell of an old one. The odor of an old book is the odor of history, and for me, the look of a new one is still the look of the future...
...career that has spanned 25 years, he spent 10 of them as a reporter. Since then, he has worked to modernize the way graphics are used at The Times, replacing scissors and glue with more sophisticated computer technology...
...time that Meislin took over, recounts Lee, artists would piece together graphics by hand, pasting down names of cities on maps with glue. The sudden appearance of computers promised to revolutionize the way graphics and illustrations were put together for the paper...
Then there was the time they poured glue in the locks, and the times they broke the windows. Most mornings, antiabortion activists are on the scene in Bellevue, waving placards, trying to pass out literature, yelling at the women or couples on their way in. But all that harassment pales next to the day in 1991 when arsonists burned down the farm of Mary and her husband Dr. LeRoy Carhart, 58, who runs the clinic. The fire killed 17 horses, and police never arrested anyone. On that day--the day Nebraska's parental-notification law went into effect...
...specific case of the glue on the label, Ping's team sought their sellers online with the help of a dot-com "market maker" whose web page trumpets its expertise in "business-to-business online auctions for buyers of industrial parts, raw materials, commodities and services." For every different adhesive needed to attach label to bottle, Ping said, "they had at least four of five [online] bidders," each a national supplier. The winning bid represented a savings of 20 percent...