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...home gardeners pore over seed catalogs and boast of homegrown salads; she knows that "Nature, far from being on your side, is actively against you, attacking with bugs, molds, rot, cankers, neighboring dogs, raccoons, skunks, porcupines, drought, torrential rains, 'black' frosts, snow heaves, winter- kill. And I cannot think that the satisfaction derived is in the results, however beautiful or tasty . . . The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable...
...crisp appearance of each page is ensured only because coders endlessly scrutinize the placement of every bit of information. "We are completely involved in the visual detail of the page," says Gary Deaton, who supervises TIME'S crew of ten coders. "We pore over every millimeter of the magazine to make sure that everything falls in place, that border lines don't overlap and that pages have a uniform appearance...
...down their Wall Street Journals for a moment and taken a hard look at reality, they would never have forwarded the claim that the Social Studies department is a Marxist citadel. Karl Marx is but one of eight theorists, for example, whom sophomores read in their tutorial. Concentrators also pore over the pages of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, pillars of the political and economic tradition to which the Republican Club is the delinquent heir. Why, each year department chairman David Landes gives a lecture in which he lambastes Marx as a historian and economist, echoing Raymond Aron...
...pages of America's coffee-table literature, the author claims Playboy helped legitimize the growing movement away from conformity and toward a new, personally materialistic prototype. Ehrenreich describes "the ultimately sophisticated charge against Playboy: it wasn't really 'sexy'." She describes the "pink-checked young Playmates whose every pore and drop of perspiration had been air-brushed out of existence. Hefner was 'puritanical' after all..." Certainly the centerfolds gave men something to look at, but it was the advertisements in the magazine--every new male status symbol from sports cars to cologne--that had the greatest effect on its readership...
...feature to be typeset with ragged right edges; the second page will become primarily an expanded index; the rest of the paper will be structured into distinct sections, each with its opening cover page. Says Fanning: "We are attempting to fit into the fast pace of life. People cannot pore through a paper these days...