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Like a cop on a beat, Mahon patrols the Northside, stopping to chat with anyone who will return her smile. At the Fiesta Mart, the noisy, pinata- bedecked hub of the neighborhood, Mahon stops to urge a security guard to bring his wife to a Madres meeting. Then she walks over to Edith Espinoza, who is wrapping food under a blinking red neon light trumpeting FRESH TORTILLAS. Espinoza, about eight months pregnant, knows Mahon but doesn't know English. So, with some help from the store manager, she informs Mahon that she is going to the hospital the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston, Texas So Small, So Sweet, So Soon | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

Actually, the number of farm animals I saw in Nebraska this past weekend was identical to the number of people I saw wearing overalls--zero. However, I wish I could have stuffed all the differences into my suitcase and brought them back to the Hub...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Tales of a Lost Wanderer in Nebraska | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

...etched on silicon using a variation on the photolithographic technique used to make computer chips. To build a tiny rotating arm, for example, layers of polysilicon and a type of glass that can be removed with acid are deposited on a silicon base. A hole for the hub is lined with the glass and then filled with polysilicon. When the glass is etched away, the hub remains and the arm is free to spin around its axis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Incredible Shrinking Machine | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...Francisco with its 400,000 souls was the undisputed gem of the Pacific Coast, a bustling, pungent, polyglot city enjoying corrupt government, splendid libraries and wonderful restaurants. As a hub of international finance and society, it rivaled New York City and Paris, and it took perverse pride in its reputation, well earned by the depravity of the carnal Barbary Coast, as "the wickedest city in the world." The evening of April 17, when the nonpareil Enrico Caruso sang in Carmen at the Grand Opera House before repairing to the fabulous Palace Hotel (a telephone and bath for every room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First The Shaking, Then the Flames | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

...disk was the most sought-after part because it served as the hub for the engine's turbine blades. Metallurgists who inspected the disk last week found a crack that appeared to have been present before the explosion and may have triggered it. From its total reward fund of $271,000, GE paid farmer Sorenson, 58, a bounty of $120,000 for her discovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACCIDENTS Reaping a Clue In a Cornfield | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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