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...sign up for a Frequent Flyer program? It's easy, it's free, and you can earn free tickets. Since you're traveling anyway, you've got nothing to lose." That is how it always begins: "Bill, have you heard about this new kind of glue? They say it has the most incredible effect." And then the sudden fall. "I guess it can't hurt. They say everyone is doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miles to Go Before I Sleep | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...steers clear of boy-girl stuff in favor of far less charted lyrical waters. All the banging on sets of bells and strumming of ukeleles somehow add up to ingratiating, appealing music, neither clunky nor gimmicky, and neither "punk" nor slick. My favorite Wimp Factor song is "Role Model Glue," about a guy like me who can't bear to believe less than the best about his personal heroes: "Use too much role model glue/ To build up someone to look up to/ Not such a great idea." Here's a better idea: see Wimp Factor 14 at the Middle...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: Punk Grrrls and Pittsburgh | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...criteria for judging the ads remains a mystery. Although they were divided up into those receiving the bronze, silver and gold lion awards and the grand prix, the distinction seemed to be arbitrary. The grand prix, an ad for some brand of glue, showed a nun refixing a penis onto a baby Jesus...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Hard Sell | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

...finding which may eventually lead to ways to stimulate wound healing or fight tumor growth, a group of Harvard researchers has discovered the glue that sticks blood cells together to form young blood vessels...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: RESEARCH BRIEFS | 9/28/1993 | See Source »

...most important message, he says, is "not to cut down the rain forest." But others are not so sure. Says Stephen Houston, a hieroglyphics expert from Vanderbilt University: "I think we should be careful of finding too many lessons in the Maya. They were a different society, and the glue that held them together was different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Secrets of the Maya | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

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