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...here's a salute to the Americans who make waitresses laugh and to the ones who pick up litter on the beach, the ones who stop to help the ones who have flat tires, the ones who return wallets, the ones who pick and sing for fun and the ones who run the Fritos pie booth at the PTA school fair. Here's to the clerks who say, "Now you have a nice day, hear?" and mean it, and to the ones who say wryly, "If it was a snake, it would've bit you." Here's to whale savers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Jumble Out There | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...broken by violent summer showers, Kosovo is waking to a midsummer's nightmare. The sickly sweet smell of decaying flesh hangs in invisible clouds across the province, and the ground offers up body parts. Bits of ashen bone--a thigh, a rib cage--and chunks of roasted flesh litter the floors of burned-out houses. Corpses, left where they fell, putrefy in fields and farmyards amid the buzzing of flies and the howling of stray dogs. As the first of Kosovo's Albanian refugees stream back across the borders or down from hiding in the hills, they are discovering just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crimes Of War | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

Below his booted feet, the sculpture depicts the usual New England seacoast litter: seashells, a fiddler crab or two, strands of kelp, and driftwood. What captures most passersby, however, is a quotation of Morison's engraved on a rock at his left side: "Dream dreams, then write them down-aye, but live them first...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Morison: A Harvard Historian Frozen in Time | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Below his booted feet, the sculpture depicts the usual New England seacoast litter: seashells, a fiddler crab or two, strands of kelp, and driftwood. What captures most passersby, however, is a quotation of Morison's engraved on a rock at his left side: "Dream dreams, then write them down--aye, but live them first...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: S.E. Morison: A Monument to the Man | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...local beach, golf course or stadium. Every town has an idyllic spot where the youngsters go to commune with nature and break the law. In the next two months, you should litter yours with more bottle caps than Bert would know what to do with...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Thinkin' About...Glory Days | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

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