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...Onion will not resume its normal publishing schedule until Sept...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Terrorist Attacks Dominate Web | 9/19/2001 | See Source »

...done it by worrying less about impressing his customers than about just letting them enjoy eating. He begins the meal with a canape of salmon tartare with red onion creme fraiche in a savory tuile that looks just like a tiny ice cream cone. What sounds precious is somehow just fun. Then, because he has the luxury of charging a bucketful, he solves the problem of your palate's becoming bored after two or three bites by serving five to 10 mini-courses of just a few gobbles each. The only big hunks he puts on the plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chef: Captain Cook | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...parody in the Onion was headlined STUDY REVEALS: BABIES ARE STUPID. According to "research," infants cannot learn to scuba dive or read a map. The joke works because our expectations of babies' intelligence have been inverted--a small sign of the revolution brought about by Spelke's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Developmental Psychology: Baby Monitor | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Other winners included local favorite community bulletin board site Craig’s List for community, the popular search engine Google.com for “best practices,” Inside.com for best news site, satirical newsletter The Onion for best humor site, and Peter Pan’s Home Page for best Weird site...

Author: By Michelle Kung, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: ‘Digerati’ Celebrate At the Webby Awards | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

...didn't feel pretty, and though I was loaded with talent, I didn't realize any of it. My husband, to his credit, had been urging me to try comedy. On March 7, 1955, at 37, I debuted at a popular San Francisco night spot, the Purple Onion. I was booked for two weeks. I ended up staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Risky Business: How a book helped a housewife jump-start a pioneering career as a comic | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

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