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...expendable. Film and cameras, whose unit sales dropped 31.5%, was the worst of the bunch. "A camera is not something you need right now," says DeMott. Plus, who really wants to remember these tough times? And if couples are using contraception, they won't need a camera to snap precious baby pictures...
...earlier age, when sources of clean water were more scarce and precious, all men, women, and children drank wine and beer at every meal. The first miracle of Christianity, indeed, was the transformation of water into wine. This powerful and pleasant elixir, truly a precondition of civilization, deserves to be appreciated and used responsibly and appropriately...
...wittily about her dog and her meals and her friends. Sometimes she Twitters about Twittering. I like it. When I get a tweet from her, I feel a bit like I'm in her Famous presence--like she's a distant sun warming me from across the universe, one precious little sunbeam at a time. (I'll leave her identity a matter of speculation. Tweets are public yet also weirdly intimate.) (See the 25 best blogs...
...Harvard, time and space are precious commodities. Nearly every student longs for one more minute on an exam, one more foot of space on the morning shuttle. “The Space Within; The Time Without,” the newest exhibition in the Penthouse Coffee Bar at the Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH), explores the interchangeability of space and time. Unlike the standard fare of sterile modern sculpture, the SOCH’s latest spatial installation necessitates interaction with the art in a thought-provoking way. The work itself extends not only into the physical space...
...presidency and was rescued along with the Americans and 11 other hostages last summer. The authors describe the married Betancourt as carrying on an affair with a Colombian hostage, acting like a privileged blue-blood - "a frickin' princess" in Stansell's telling - bossing around the other prisoners and hoarding precious books, food and a transistor radio. They even claim that she told the guerrillas that the Americans were CIA agents. Asked to elaborate on Betancourt, Stansell told TIME: "That's an infection I lived with for many years. I'd just like to be inoculated and move on." Betancourt...