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...that's very limiting." But others think Chen has enough presence to disengage her image from her brother. "Tricia always captured attention," explains a friend, Martin Lee, a Hong Kong banker. "We'd go to clubs and just be sitting at a table and someone would pass her a napkin that said 'would you marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Star is Formed | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...napkin down and said, "Very well, I'll go up and pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Home Free | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...never saw my adoptive father again. Twenty-seven years after I put my napkin down at breakfast, I heard that my adoptive mother, now widowed, was ill and lonely. I sighed and made contact with her. We never forgave each other. Still, I'm glad I did it. It may seem very cynical of me, but if I hadn't, I never would have written Three Tall Women. That play was the beginning of a particularly fertile decade for me that produced The Play About the Baby and The Goat, among other things. And it's not over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Home Free | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...Vistakon line of disposable contact lenses. At the time Johnson & Johnson was manufacturing contact lenses using a system that required multiple operators and took up the space of five single-file Greyhound buses. Kok visited the firm's factory in Jacksonville, Fla., and then--on an airline napkin--sketched an invention that would manufacture the lenses in a space about half a bus long, with only a single machine operator. To cut costs further, Kok and his team developed a way of quickly changing the many molds needed to cover the whole range of contact-lens prescriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mister Lean | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...core campers. After the sealed meal is placed in a pouch, water (of any temperature) is added, and in 12 minutes, through the magic of magnesium and oxygen, the food is piping hot. The meals, in such flavors as Chicken and Vegetable Casserole and Rotini Bolognese, come with a napkin. --By Desa Philadelphia

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Etiquette: Matchless Campfires | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

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