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Visiting a Body Shop is like walking into the headquarters of a political cabal -- albeit one scented with dewberry perfume. There are slogans and messages scattered among the fruit-scented soaps and peppermint foot lotions. Exhortations to save the whales and fight for human rights shout from store windows, countertops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anita Roddick: Anita The Agitator | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for--a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/20/1993 | See Source »

SINGAPORE IS ASIA'S DREAM COUNTRY. Almost anywhere else, Goh Pang Meng, the son of a poor immigrant street vendor from China, would still be struggling to survive in a thatched hut like the one in which he grew up with 11 brothers and sisters. But at 44, Goh owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Singapore a Model for the West? | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

Robert M. Gogan, recycling Coordinator for Facilities Maintenance at the University, said that although Harvard already has recycling bins scattered throughout campus, the University is not yet in compliance with city law.

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: City Demands Full Recycling Plans From University, Student Groups | 12/9/1992 | See Source »

Instead, set designer John Conklin evokes a gray, gloomy, decaying world (much like present-day Britain, in fact) that is literally falling apart. The centerpiece is a crumbling Ravenswood castle -- nevermore! -- that conjures the shades of doomed fictional redoubts from the Gibichungs' hall to Carfax Abbey, replete with scattered coffins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad, Bad and Dangerous | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

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