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...bottle was big enough to let him smell the goodies but small enough to keep him from reaching in with his tongue. He would hop around in circles, trying vainly to push his snout into the thing as it slid and spun away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinkers: What's The Big Idea? | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...ironic that after converting the Europeans--and most of the rest of the world, for that matter--to the U.S. lifestyle of focusing on consumerism, Americans are now taking time out to smell the roses. WILLIAM BEDFORD Toronto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 10, 2001 | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

...time was marked most significantly by our several-month relocation during the renovation of the Crimson building and the upgrade of the computers. The smell of the Hong Kong’s dumpsters will never leave me. A hassle, but well worth it in terms of the improvements attained...

Author: By The FM Ex-staff, | Title: Workin’ for the Mag | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

...fast-food joint in Shibuya staring at a sheet of purikura photos, instant snapshots printed on stickers taken in arcade booths. It features the two in various poses with four guys who look to be in their mid-20s. "We can't go home because our parents would smell the drink on us," says Hana, her face clouding. "I hate them. They're so strict." Lately she's run away for longer periods, sometimes sleeping at her friend Aya's house, sometimes partying for days on end. Hana brightens and nudges Aya, pointing to a few dyed-blond punks slouching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teenage Wasteland | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...town of Yong Jing in Northern China is "so small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting?and unwilling?assignees to a program of re-education through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Twist on Balzac | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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