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...years the dreary Soviet-era stores that once lined it have been snapped up and remodeled. Waitresses in red tartan aprons now dish out edible pizza for $1 a slice at Tashir's shiny new restaurant, which also offers wireless Internet access. Nearby are a sushi bar, a kitchen-design store, a café that bears a passing resemblance to Starbucks, a bright yellow mobile-phone kiosk that's open 24 hours a day and Jackpot, a slot-machine arcade that marks Kaluga's attempt at glamour. "You can see people have more money," says Alexander Kuptsov, owner of Bellissimo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Rich in the Heart of Russia | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...well. “We had a lot of recycling bins, and everyone arrived in green, really excited to be helping the environment,” Artz said. “They were drinking for the environment.” Other Mather eco-projects included campaigning for the kitchen shared by Dunster and Mather dining halls to be silver-certified for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a national award given by the U.S. Green Building Council, and restoring the Student Mug Rack, which allows students to use their own mugs washed by kitchen staff, according...

Author: By Matthew S. Blumenthal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather Nabs Green Cup | 5/5/2006 | See Source »

...shown an alternative in the short story “Adams”: “I never could stomach Adams and then one day he’s standing in my kitchen, in his underwear,” the story begins. As the quarrel between the narrator and his quirky neighbor escalates to the point where they have no choice but to try to kill each other and each other’s children, the vocabulary of “home” and “family” and “freedom” in which...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weigel Room: Stories Frolic at the Border of Absurdity | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

...escaped from domestic prison. Fifty years ago, a stay-at-home mom who loved her husband would not automatically be assumed to be a Republican. The image of the Democratic Party that used to come to mind was of a workingman and his wife sitting at the kitchen table worrying about how they were going to pay the bills and voting for Adlai Stevenson because he was going to help them squeak by every month and maybe even afford to send their kids to college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We're Here, We're Square, Get Used to It | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...just have been the most deliriously acute comedies of the last decade. But you have to remember that in those pictures the alien invaders often took up residence in our trashiest environments, places where the pickup truck was parked in the front yard and meatloaf was on the kitchen table. You also have to remember that the films argued that Sylvester Stallone was just possibly an extra-terrestrial in disguise and that the supermarket tabloids, with their giddy accounts of UFO landings and the births of two-headed cows , were truthfully reflecting our hidden reality while the New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Found in America | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

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