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Much of the money came from the Bombay Stock Exchange, which is now a feverish financial center. On weekdays, hundreds of sweating, shoving and shouting traders fill an entire floor, recording transactions in soiled and curled-up note pads with leaky ball-point pens. As they jostle through the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Age of Capitalism | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

At least 42 species of seabirds are known to snack on plastic. Of 50 albatrosses found ill or dead on the Midway Islands, 45 had eaten some form of the substance. In several, the plastic had either obstructed the digestive tract or caused ulcers. Says James Coe, program manager for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Perils of Plastic Pollution | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

In addition to $1000 in checks, the group has collected textbooks, lab equipment, typewriters, paper, pens and copy machines for the university, which supports El Salvadoran rebels, said organizer Douglas A. Calvin, a sophomore at the the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Author: By Mary E. Sarotte, | Title: Local Group Sends Aid to Salvadoran University | 4/9/1986 | See Source »

Yet Toad perforce persisted. It had been years since he had formally and respectfully addressed blank paper with only pen or pencil in hand. He felt unarmed, vulnerable. He thought of final exams long years ago--the fields of rustling blue-book pages, the universal low, frantic scratching of pens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Scribble, Scribble, Eh, Mr. Toad? | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

Today Gillette is a monstrous international conglomerate with plants from Johannesburg to Munich. The company does over $2 billion dollars of business every year, selling products that range from luxury fountain pens to ladies deodorant. Fully one third of the corporation's business, however, remains in the bedrock blades and...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Where the World Learns to Shave | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

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