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...extension that she calls "the North Forty" because of its remoteness. The first wave consists of girls who march straight into one of three exam rooms, where they throw down their bookbags, turn out the lights and flop onto cots, asleep before they hit the pillow. Nurse Buss is unfazed. "These kids who get bused in from the city get up before 5," she explains. "They come here to sleep for half an hour before class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monday | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Trying to sleep past 9 a.m.? You'll have to duck under the pillow while the Memorial Church bell rings for a very loud and irritating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Minutes | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

Unfortunately, I also tend to poach the bills out of her piggy bank late at night to pay the baby sitter or the pizza guy. (One night I even dipped into her petty cash to slip a buck under her pillow from the tooth fairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Piggy-Bank Blues | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

Soft money? This is a pillow factory. With the House of Representatives tantalizingly up for grabs in 2000 ?- only 5 seats separate the Democrats from resurrection and the Republicans from ignominy ?- the fundraising race is on. And according to candidates? own reporting to the Federal Election Commission for the first six months of the year (and remember, these six months are the first of these guys? terms; no wonder so little legislation gets passed) the totals are already in the stratosphere. The trend is most striking among the vulnerable. This time in 1997, Democratic freshmen had an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Noise? It's the Jingling of Warchests | 8/11/1999 | See Source »

Finally I slipped into Salomon's TR8s ($330). They were so soft and comfortable I feared I would lose all sense of reason. So I had my co-worker Mac, a serious skater and tough critic, test them out too. "It feels like your foot is wrapped in a pillow," he said. After a couple of loops around the park, Mac decided that they felt a little "loosey-goosey" on the top of his foot. He also was worried that their flashy design would ruin his East Village hipster reputation. But my goose wasn't loose, and I like attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Wheels | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

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