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Akiko Tsutsui, a 10-year-old fifth-grader, gets out of school at 3:30 p.m. and goes straight home to have a snack and do her homework. Three afternoons a week she leaves again at 4:45 for a juku session that lasts from 5:10 to 10:00. For almost the entire class, Akiko will listen to tutors explain how to answer test questions and will practice taking them herself. She sometimes attends all day on Sunday for extra help. The classes give Akiko a better chance of getting into a local private junior high school, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAILED MIRACLE | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...crackpot inventor; Gromit, a bookish sort, gets his friend out of wild scrapes when not reading Crime and Punishment (by Fido Dogstoyevsky) or Pluto's Republic or Electronics for Dogs. The typical plot: Wallace will be seized by some selfish idea--flying to the moon for a cheese snack in A Grand Day Out or renting out Gromit's room to a pistol-packin' penguin in The Wrong Trousers or courting a sheep-napping femme fatale in A Close Shave--and Gromit will pitch us a conspiratorial sigh with a mute eloquence worthy of Buster Keaton. The put-upon pooch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: NICK PARK: HERE'S THE REAL BEST PICTURE | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

Aaron P. Easterly '99 said he comes to Loker Commons because he can grab a quick snack and also study for his classes...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Commons Becoming Hot Spot | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...propose that every Harvard undergraduate invite a homeless person to Loker Commons sometime during the present semester. It might be for a snack or a soda or a three-course dinner. In the end result, each student should have tithed his Crimson Cash--that is, spent roughly $10 on the indigent...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: Share Crimson Cash | 2/9/1996 | See Source »

...called fat-free fat, which passes through the digestive tract without being absorbed and thus adds no fat and no fat calories to food, can be used only in savory snacks, like potato chips, crackers and tortilla chips. The data, explains FDA Commissioner David Kessler, "demonstrate reasonable certainty of no harm in certain snack foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAT-FREE FAT | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

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