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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Asakusa is crowded with noodle shops that are perfect for lunch. Most serve plump udon or soba in savory broth crowned with tempura-fried shrimp, the area's other delicacy. Namiki Yabu Soba, south of Kaminarimon Gate, is excellent and has English menus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Life: Tokyo Tempts | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...When the early guesstimates on this Black Friday's sales come in next week - and you will see anxious economists in malls doing exit polling - they may not mean that much even if they're encouraging. Last year's day-after-Turkey-Day numbers were plump but the rest of the season was lean until after the January markdowns, and the recent trend has been that shopping gets done earlier and earlier every year. This Black Friday could be pure gold and still be the last decent day of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Black Friday be Blue? | 11/23/2001 | See Source »

...features a gallery of notable avant-garde art and is home to Red, perhaps the most louche-looking restaurant in town. The plump, red couches have even the most starched of customers slouching like lounge lizards. The wine list would make Dionysus' toes curl, and the nouvelle Greek cuisine is affordable and appetizing. Best of all, it won't taste like the rubber Parthenon you picked up earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traditionally Trendy | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...diving down toward the heart of New York City. Meanwhile American Flight 757 had left Dulles; United Flight 175 left Boston at 7:58, and United Flight 93 left Newark three minutes later, bound for San Francisco. All climbed into beautiful clear skies, all four planes on transcontinental flights, plump with fuel, ripe to explode. "They couldn't carry anything--other than an atom bomb--that could be as bad as what they were flying," observed a veteran investigator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Want To Humble An Empire | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...diving down toward the heart of New York City. Meanwhile American Flight 757 had left Dulles; United Flight 175 left Boston at 7:58, and United Flight 93 left Newark three minutes later, bound for San Francisco. All climbed into beautiful clear skies, all four planes on transcontinental flights, plump with fuel, ripe to explode. "They couldn't carry anything--other than an atom bomb--that could be as bad as what they were flying," observed a veteran investigator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: The Day of the Attack | 9/12/2001 | See Source »

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