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...little breeze. The river is narrow and winding and our coxswain is constantly telling us when a buoy is coming up under our riggers, which is annoying as hell, but I guess it beats unexpectedly hitting a buoy that throws off your stroke. After launching off their wobbly plastic docks, we went upstream to the starting line doing some 20s at 3/4 pressure, 22 and 28 strokes per minute. Then we turned around and headed back down doing some 20s at 3/4 slide to get the rate up: 34, then 38. Finally a couple starting sequence pieces: five...

Author: By Jesse C. Nussbaum, | Title: A Rower's Diary | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...girls sit on the lower level of the Pit's granite bleachers. They rest their elbows on the bags on their laps. Beth lights a cigarette. A big black guy called Gerbil bends over from an upper bench, brandishes his plastic...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: CRLS.: The Kids Next Door | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...savvy shoppers unite on one issue: they scorn the ultra-expensive "restyled" section. The knee-high white plastic boots are attracting envious looks from a pair of shoppers, but they're refusing to pay the $59 price...

Author: By Carol J. Garvan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Garment District: Heaven in a Pile of Clothes at Cambridge's Vintage Mart | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...office during the past few years--from the self-feeding cat orb to the lawnmower-shaped robot--has elicited so many oohs and ahs as the iMac DV Special Edition ($1,499) that now sits on my desk top. Perhaps it's the classy "graphite" color or the clear plastic casing that lets you ogle its innards. Or maybe it's that the iMac looks like the slightly upturned nose cone of a space shuttle. With its overhaul of the popular iMac, Apple has again created a masterpiece of design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the New Macintosh | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...also has a family beyond the plastic dinosaur, the piggy bank, the Slinky dog and his other amigos back home in Andy's bedroom. Jessie the Yodelin' Cowgirl and Stinky Pete the prospector and a horse named Bullseye--they all want Woody to stay with them. Could life be better for a cloth toy who, in the original film, thought no one wanted him? Now everybody does. Way too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TS2: Sneak Preview | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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