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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...authorities recommend evacuation, car windows and vents should be closed and a first-aid kit packed. FEMA provides more suggestions on its website, www.fema.gov The advice may not be as appealing as a panacea pill, but to an increasingly jittery public, almost any advice is welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This The Next Cipro? Not Quite | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...down. "She's been in all these strange parts, sometimes triad related, and yet yuppies love her. She has a very upmarket following." Evidently. Urbane avant-garde British director Peter Greenaway, who has made a career from persuading yuppie actresses like Joely Richardson and Amanda Plummer to take their kit off, came knocking on Mok's door in 1997 suggesting a part in his forthcoming film, 8 1/2 Women. Mok turned him down: despite the lunacy of the characters she had played; she feared that full-frontal nudity and on-screen sex was something she wouldn't be comfortable with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mok-A-Bye Baby | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

There are a few not-so-inane helpful hints, however, including advice on how to create a personal sanctuary when obligations start piling up, and another one that really caught my eye—the anti-stress survival kit. On the left-hand side of page 87, there is a small box devoted to reader responses about their personal holiday anti-stress kits...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, | Title: Holiday Anti-Stress Survival Kit | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

Like it or not boys, winter equals formals, cocktail parties and holiday shindigs! This is my magic anti-stress kit and there is no better cure to work-a-day world stress than looking drop dead diva delicious...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, | Title: Holiday Anti-Stress Survival Kit | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...bus’ conservative décor screams safety. A first aid kit mounted on the wall overshadows a more noteworthy ‘body fluid clean-up kit’ (the contents of which are still unknown). Large metal handrails span the ceiling, lending support to students who would otherwise fall during their post-party drunkenness or the bumpy ride around campus. An imitation-leather strip of padding rests above the shuttle’s exit to protect taller students from injuring their heads. The red, plush upholstery on the gray seats almost matches the four no-smoking signs...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

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