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...grass--thanks to an automatic transmission, cruise control and power steering that makes one-handed driving a snap. He can plug a CD player into the 12-volt outlet and sip a beverage from the cup holder. There's enough juice under the hood--with a "high torque," liquid-cooled 24-h.p. engine--to tote his three sons in a wagon. "If you ask my wife, it's a toy, and she's right," he says. The price of his fully loaded lawn chariot: $17,000, same as a Chevy pickup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Splendor In The Grass | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...decided to sell her popular dense, mousselike brownies after her job opportunities were severely curtailed during the post-9/11 recession. Faced with creating her brownie large-batch formula, she quickly discovered that she didn't have the slightest clue about how to work with commercial-grade liquid eggs. After that, two arrangements for using commercial kitchens eventually fell apart before she entered into her current agreement with Louise's Bakery in Baltimore. But probably her biggest mistake was not to have an attorney from the get-go. Allen had no idea that the name she attempted to trademark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foodies Gone Wild | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...they might, Square Residents cannot forget Real Taco. Painful images of its mercifully brief stay still fester in our minds—the liquid guacamole squirting from ketchup bottles, the inexplicable mélange of salad bar leftovers masking a meager amount of grey chicken and the universal look of shock and anger prompted by the bill...

Author: By Jack Muse, | Title: Diagnosing Real Estate | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

...Bartosh, 61, ever since the birth of her first child 41 years ago but had grown noticeably worse in the past decade. "Every time I coughed or sneezed," she says, "I had to cross my legs to stop leaking or else die from embarrassment." Bartosh had to limit her liquid intake, and maxi pads became a wardrobe staple. After years of feeling ashamed, she finally saw a urologist. "I was looking for a way to make the quality of my life better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body & Mind: Taking Back Control | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

...container of Mrs. Meyer's dish soap and $18 for a 34oz. bottle of Good Home's Laundry fragrance, those are clearly luxury items. (A 25-oz. bottle of Palmolive or Joy dishwashing liquid can be had for just $1.99.) What customers are paying for is not only costly ingredients like French lavender oil and fancy packaging but also some fairly sophisticated chemistry. Combining aromatic oils with cleaning agents is not so easy to do, explains Avery Gilbert, president of Synesthetics Inc., a firm based in Montclair, N.J., that provides consultations to the fragrance industry. "The soap base has chemical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smell of Clean | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

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