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...cabs remain the quickest way to the airport, although they can cost as much as $35 from Harvard, in contrast to the $1.25 fare for either the Blue or Silver line...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Silver Line Eases Travel to Logan | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

...Confederacy from using slaves to grow the food that fed its army. "The negro is the stomach of the rebellion," he wrote. "Every slave who escapes from the Rebel States is a loss to the Rebellion and a gain to the Loyal Cause." He also understood that the quickest way for blacks to gain equal rights was to become Union soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Great Divide | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...after a few years. Japanese retailers viewed Gillette's move as arrogant, and the firm was unable to sell its products on its own. Says Jay Gwynne, president of the consumer health-products division of Warner-Lambert, which owns Schick: "To try to eliminate the Japanese middleman is the quickest way to commit suicide." Schick's single-blade stainless-steel razor was judged superior to Feather's double-blade carbon one, and Schick's razor became the country's best seller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners Against Tough Odds | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...because he habitually began his seasons at about the same speed as the news departs Missouri, Leonard was never called to any All-Star games. Away at his quickest pace in May 1983, the invincible-looking pitcher with the pirate-red mustache was dispatching a routine strike to Cal Ripken of Baltimore when Leonard's left knee (his landing leg) imploded and he disappeared. As sport usually calculates these things, this scarcely qualified as tragedy, even when lengthy surgeries and lost summers followed one after the other. Besides the memory of nearly 2,000 honorable if unheralded innings, Leonard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Money Pitcher Comes Back | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...those who find that crunches are not enough, the L.A.-based label Not Your Daughter's Jeans has invented a jean that will flatten the stomach with a high-waist fit and clever engineering. At $88, the Tummy Tuck jean may be the quickest way to eliminate inches as well as personal trainers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Diet-Free Denim | 6/19/2005 | See Source »

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