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...bartending or quilt-making. Now teach somebody else...

Author: By Amanda P. Fortini, | Title: 100 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU GRADUATE | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

...better or for worse, Suburbia is the U.S.'s grass-roots. In Suburbia live one-third of the nation, roughly 60 million people who represent every patch of democracy's hand-stitched quilt, every economic layer, every laboring and professional pursuit in the country. Suburbia is the nation's broadening young middle class, staking out its claim across the landscape, prospecting on a trial-and-error basis for the good way of life for itself and for the children that it produces with such rapidity. It is, as Social Scientist Max Lerner (America as a Civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1948-1960 Affluence | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...companies also get the critical mass needed to compete with the aviation blocs created by American and United. The two majors each stitched together a quilt of global partnerships that could potentially outmaneuver smaller carriers like Continental and Northwest, if left to their own devices. Just last week a long-awaited air-service agreement between the U.S. and Japan was reached, opening up significant competition to Northwest's profitable Asian routes. American and United are expected to ink partnerships with major Japanese carriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Allied Air Force | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

After the service, mourners wrote their thoughts in two empty books and signed a giant quilt plastered with the names Umaer and Scott...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Vigil Mourns Deaths | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

...Main Street looks authentically cute, attracting house hunters from Wichita fleeing traffic and gangs and drive-by shootings. At the senior center, the ladies are sewing a memorial quilt made of a late father's old dress shirts. "People from large cities find it charming," says Pam Lamborn, owner of the Jackrabbit Hollow Bookstore, gazing up at a pretty frieze of stylized Kansas sunflowers running across the top of the bowling alley. "But you know what's going to happen? The small towns are going to become the big cities all over again." Already nostalgia may have been oversold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BACKBONE OF AMERICA | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

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