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Most students, like Lamelle, cultivate a slavish dependence on their neatly parceled timetables-whether Vinyl metal spirals from the bargain bin at CVS or leather-bound volumes printed in acid-free ink and stored in the glass cases at Bob Slate's. Worshipped like prayer books and handled like the latest edition of Playboy to hit the men's locker room, complex planners are as common among students as red books in Mao's China...
...number of grisly details were familiar from earlier, partial autopsy reports. The child had been garroted--a noose twisted tightly about her neck with a stick--and her skull had been fractured. Other findings were new. When she died, JonBenet had a red-ink drawing of a heart in the palm of her left hand. Her blond hair was done up in two ponytails, leading some observers to speculate that she had never gone to bed that Christmas night. She had a yellow metal bracelet on her right wrist with the inscription "JonBenet" and the date "12/25/96," presumably a Christmas...
...office there are only low voices and the twick of computers heralding the new century. The clovelike smell of printer's ink has already been subdued by cleaning solvents and fresh paint. The absence is marked, though, by a great, gaping hole in the back shop, as if a huge molar had been yanked...
...gasping as they cushioned each surge. I would stand a few seconds absorbing the rumble and relishing the power and the meaning. The evening's drama had begun, and each of the nearly 3,000 sheets of newsprint was tenderly guided into posterity in a marvelous alchemy of paper, ink, type and press. It echoes today...
...uses and opened new export markets, labor pools and natural resources. Government's belt-tightening means Uncle Sam needs to borrow less, leading to lower interest rates. This year the deficit is expected to shrink to about $70 billion, down 75% from $290 billion in 1992. The annual red ink is now less than 1.4% of gross domestic product, the lowest of any industrialized country. Result: a productivity-driven boom...