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Whereas the relatively clean pans are wiped down with a rag dipped in an alcohol-based cleaning solution, to handle the caked-on grease and other substances that I’m sure at some point were edible, we break out the Q-Tips and scrub away. An excursion downstairs to the cafeteria kitchen, complete with industrial strength detergent and a mechanical dishwasher, is apparently out of the question...

Author: By Christine C. Yokoyama, | Title: On Display With Julia's Kitchen | 8/9/2002 | See Source »

...You’ll learn.” I realized what he meant the moment I stepped out into the desert heat. I had been lucky enough to arrive on the hottest day of the year; the thermometer read 107. My perfectly pressed shirt was now a wet rag, and somehow I had a feeling that it would only get hotter. I was right...

Author: By Michael A. Capuano, | Title: Sweat, Campaigning In Vegas | 7/5/2002 | See Source »

...that Chaka takes as nonchalantly as Roger Rabbit's pal Eddie Valiant took Toontown. And Adamson, as he did in his book Tokyo Suckerpunch, evokes an animated Tokyo-as-Toontown that is simultaneously vivid, vibrant, gaudy and in glorious decline. It's a big adventure, but Adamson's teen rag writer takes it all with a shrug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tokyo Toontown | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

Executive Fashion --The rag trade gets some high-tech help

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: May 20, 2002 | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...libido. This memoir hopscotches between his trademark hyperbole and a peculiar form of self-abnegation (he never seems happier than when flagellating himself). Wall Street-savvy readers will particularly enjoy Cramer's blow-by-blow account of the late-'90s market. The IPO for Cramer's financial e-rag, TheStreet.com, was one of the decade's cultural touchstones. Cramer's unique blend of shrewd analysis, namedropping, and unremitting egotism puts him in the great tradition of American showmen: a P.T. Barnum for the age of the day trader. A must for market mavens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booknotes: Ex-Wives and Expats | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

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