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...Dear Mur, Nice to hear from you. Well, I'm a little uneasy about the job myself. But it makes me feel young again, just like the old days at WJM. The nice thing is that it seems to make everybody else feel young again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Seems Just Like Old Times:MARY | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Snapping on her rubber gloves—the job would be “pretty gross” without them, she admits—she sprays on Mur-Kil (Dorm Crew’s disinfectant of choice), dips the sponge in the bowl, and gives the porcelain a scrub, finishing up with a last swipe, rinse, and flush. Although she has just achieved in five minutes what some of her accomplished fellow classmates will go four years without doing, she waxes philosophical about the experience...

Author: By Heloisa L. Nogueira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Worker Readies for Spring Cleaning | 5/27/2005 | See Source »

...here. But the country is also rich in natural wonders, and opponents of the massive development scheme think Kárahnjúkar will squander some of that wealth for insufficient economic benefit. "We have serious doubts about the old-fashioned industrialist thought" behind the project, says Steingrímur J. Sigfússon, a Left-Green Movement member of the Althingi, the Icelandic parliament, and one of a handful of legislators who opposed the Kárahnjúkar project. "We have to do something to reverse the trend of people moving away to seek work, but is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price of Wealth | 8/8/2004 | See Source »

...Tone spends the rest of the movie clenching, kneading, staring at his hands; he?s a nutso-virtuoso, an Ormandy or Orlac, conducting a symphony ... of Mur-der! It may be tough to keep from laughing at Tone?s aristo-path, and harder to wave away the plot idiocies. (How did Jack commit the murder and then track Scott into the bar and shadow his every move, so that he would be able to contact and bribe the witnesses?) Clear these hurdles and you?ll enjoy the climax, as Jack invites Carol back to his place, loosens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Fear Noir | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...local corruption scandals - took their toll, even as sunbathing became fashionable and ordinary folk began flocking to the Côte d'Azur in the summer. Now, asserts the generally optimistic Kanigel, Nice has all the woes of mass tourism - traffic jams, polluted beaches, collapsing sewage systems and a mur de beton, or concrete wall, of hotels and apartment blocks that have compromised the Riviera's beauty forever. Kanigel's method is to rely on scores of diaries, letters and other records from visitors down the years. Tobias Smollett, a pugnacious British writer whose Travels through France and Italy became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Nice for Too Many | 8/25/2002 | See Source »

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