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...arrive in San Francisco and notice a big difference in the weather. There is a large yellow object in the sky that hurts when you look...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Seeking Asylum at the Harvard of the West | 3/2/1999 | See Source »

...agreement or face NATO bombing. On a trip to Moscow in January, she laid out the U.S. plan to Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov during intermissions at a performance of La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theater. By the end of the opera, Ivanov had agreed that Russia would not object to the threat of air strikes--giving Albright a stronger negotiating position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madeleine Albright: Packing Heat | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...hard to hate hats but easy to feel no need for them. Milliner Philip Treacy understands this. He knows that the hat, unlike, say, the shirt, is an object less of necessity and more of desire. But so deeply does the Irish-born designer love hats that he wants to inspire everyone to dress headfirst. Thus, when Treacy (pronounced Trace-ee) stages a hat show, as he did last week in New York City, there's nary a beret in sight. Instead, he sent down the runway a variety of head cases that included a Day-Glo blue sea anemone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Mad About Hats | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Preliminary as these findings are, groups like Brody's have seen enough. Some hospitals in Europe have switched to PVC-free IV bags and tubes, and U.S. activists are calling for the same step here. PVC manufacturers object, insisting that their products are safe and arguing that animals in plastic studies are given far higher levels of PVC than a human would ever absorb. In at least one experiment, however, rats were deliberately given low PVC doses and still showed ill effects. Abbott Laboratories, a PVC maker, admits there is too little data to draw hard conclusions; with some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poisonous Plastics? | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Morell's work is coolly and carefully playful, almost devoid of humans and human drama. His photographs are an object lesson in finding fascination in new places...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MFA Reveals the Secret Life of Objects | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

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