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...store’s inventory ranges from unusual postcards, cookbooks, toys, travel kits, household knickknacks and fun furniture—all products that the Corcorans said are meant to spice up customers’ homes...

Author: By Lesley W. Ma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quirky Gift Shop Opens in Square | 4/2/2002 | See Source »

...likely to abuse psychotherapeutic drugs such as Valium. They are also more likely to have used inhalants--such as air freshener, glue, paint or cooking spray--in the past month. A total of 6.2 million American girls and women have risked brain damage and death by "huffing" these common household products to get high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gentler Sex? | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...baby doesn’t care what your GPA is, who you know or what your yearly household income is. When you’ve fallen for a newborn the love is easy and unconditional and always reciprocated. Your baby isn’t going to leave you and she won’t care if you spend another summer waitressing on Cape. I know that the last thing I actually need right now is the immense responsibility of raising a child. But the thought of escaping from the fast track to the real world is so appealing...

Author: By Elizabeth F. Maher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Quarter-Life Crisis | 3/14/2002 | See Source »

...multimillion-dollar acquisition that will throw the spotlight once again on the 45-year-old Kentuckian and the company he named after his grandma's tobacco farm. Ripplewood Holdings might be little known in the U.S., but the private-equity firm, based in New York City, is virtually a household name in Japan, thanks to a $2.5 billion shopping spree in which it has grabbed national jewels, including a bank, a golf resort and a record label. The current deal may or may not involve KDDI, the Japanese phone giant Ripplewood is reportedly negotiating with for purchase of its wireless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Invaders | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

Fresh evidence of this came last week when, as European Union officials excoriated the U.S., the French government balked at opening its household electricity market to foreign competition. French officials in Brussels cited the recent California energy crisis and the Enron scandal as evidence of the perils of opening up the sector to privatization. Strange then that the French national electricity company EDF, flush with cash from its virtual domestic monopoly, has been snapping up energy utilities in countries where the market has already been opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The French Exception | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

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