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...Movies don't change. Ellie Andrews (Claudette Colbert) is still a rich, spoiled heiress with a daddy problem who thinks she wants to marry a phony named King Westley, an "aviator" who arrives for their wedding by landing on Daddy's sumptuous lawn in an autogyro. Peter Warne (Clark Gable), an unemployed newspaperman and wisecracking paragon, rescues Ellie from the phonies at the last moment and bears her away to the true America, for a honeymoon in a roadside motor camp in Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Still Frank Capra's America? | 1/7/2002 | See Source »

...file onto the wide lawn in front of what used to be the library. The white steps going up are still the same, the main entrance is unaltered. There’s a wooden stage erected on the lawn, something like the one they used every spring, for commencement, in the time before...

Author: By Thalia S. Field, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Margaret Atwood's Wilderness Tips | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

...only she could wake up and find it was the afternoon of Sept. 10. Jo was home after helping out with his family's lawn-sprinkler business, before heading for the firehouse. He flicked through a magazine with pictures of big Victorian homes. "Let's go and look at some houses tomorrow," he said to his wife of five years. But for Jo, tomorrow was cut short. "I'm thankful I had him for the time I did, so thankful that he chose me," Naoemi says. "But it was too short. We had our lives planned for the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After The Crash: One Family, Two Tragedies | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

Here's how the Slugbot works: a lawn mower-size machine with a long arm shines red light on the ground to identify a shiny, sluglike object, then analyzes its shape. When it finds a slug, it picks it up and drops it in a hopper. Bacteria inside the robot eat the slimy critters--a process that releases electrons that can be captured and, in theory, keep the bot's batteries perpetually charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions: Best Of The Rest | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...Rebeiro, Supervisor of the Main Yard, added that building managers and supervisors are usually informed of impending lawn treatment, but there usually isn’t an effort to make the student body aware...

Author: By Amy W. Lai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Signs Aim to Calm Fears | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

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