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...there's nothing normal about the nearly 26,000 liters of fuel an hour - twice that of a jumbo jet - that the Concorde consumes. The Concorde's comeback is notable not only because British Airways has decided the plane is safe to fly again, but also because it can afford to fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil on Troubled Waters | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

Once you try it, you will understand why Berkshire pork sells for 60[cents] per lb. wholesale--about 50% more than factory-grown skinny pigs--and about $9 for a jumbo pork chop online. It's the Ben & Jerry's of pork: socially conscientious and sinfully delicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exporting: A Yen For Pork | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK The Jumbo Music Block ($60, for ages 1 and up) is designed to be Baby's first gadget. Made by Neurosmith, which specializes in tech for tykes, it's a plush cube 14 in. on a side--that's about waist high on a toddler--and covered with bright, colorful touch-sensitive shapes, each of which hides a secret pocket. It's designed to teach music and motor skills: touch a shape, and it plays a maddeningly perky tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Aug. 27, 2001 | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...Some 1,200 companies will showing their balance sheets to Wall Street this week, a data dump of crunched numbers, profit forecasts and other financial mumbo-jumbo that will only confirm what everybody's supposed to know by now: Business, in the second quarter, was lousy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Street This Week: Beware the Bounce | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

...Noted "We keep it secret like a doctor keeping a patient's records." MANU MELWANI, owner of Sam's Tailor shop in Hong Kong, on the measurements of jumbo tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who ordered nine suits last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

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