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...Check out the posters and fliers advertising upcoming actions. Admire the huge red and black anarchy banner that runs along the back wall. Sign a petition or two. Sit on the floor and stay a while; nobody will mind. But be forewarned: the Lucy Parsons Center don't always smell too fresh. But, hey, nobody ever said bohemia smelled good...

Author: By Micaela K. Root, | Title: Beyond the Coop | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

Anorexic women often stop menstruating and grow excess body hair. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. Bulimics often purge upwards of five times a day. Fat people don't smell and aren't always lazy. Binge eaters have no concept of hunger or fullness...

Author: By Melissa L. Gibson, | Title: The Private Mantra | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...this had been a movie, Harris might well have been sent by central casting. The 46-year-old has a full beard and a spastic eye. Then there is his home in Lancaster, Ohio. The first thing you notice when you enter Harris' world is the smell, the stench of numerous cats and dogs in a cramped bungalow. This is laced with the subtler scent of a basement filled with dried foods, stockpiled for the aftermath of the coming race war. Enter Harris' bedroom and you will find lab equipment and a refrigerator, from which Harris pulls a sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catching a 48-Hour Bug | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...generals on Wall Street do love a war. There's nothing like the smell of smart bombs in the morning--as long as they're ours--to arouse feelings of invincibility. And what better frame of mind for dialing one's broker and cheerfully picking up another 100 shares of Boeing or Lockheed Martin? With Saddam the Sequel possibly only days away, I guess it's no shocker that the market has hit new highs for the first time in six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street Goes to War | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...temple town, home to one of Japan's most ecumenical Buddhist centers, Zenkoji, a 40-structure complex set against the mountains. The cypress-roofed temple is the city's center of gravity, marked on all the highway signs. Zenkoji announces itself with the shock of pounding drums, the smell of burning incense, the flutter of white-paper prayers. Somewhere inside its main hall is what is said to be the first Buddha image ever to arrive in Japan, so precious that only a replica is displayed once every seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nagano 1998: Into The Heartland | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

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