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...store in Milwaukee, Wis., that employs 12 instructors to teach 25 classes on the pastime. Anything from ticket stubs to playbills to corsages to diary entries can go into scrapbooks. Processing them in the approved way, however, has come to involve acid-free markers, "archival mist" (a spray that preserves objects), stickers, borders, circle scissors, paper cutouts and a host of other products by art suppliers formerly beholden to the whims of kindergarten teachers and Halloween revelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Only the Best Scraps Go into These Books | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...that if you're in a klezmer band, better get an agent and some new leather pants). But to answer your most pressing questions about the future: No, Major League Baseball teams will never wear those God-awful "Turn Ahead the Clock" uniforms, and yes, it's true--spray-on pants...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: A Vision of the Future | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

Tomorrow's soldiers will also be outfitted with the Army's new Buck Rogers-like supergun. The lower of its two barrels sprays more standard bullets, but the key to the new rifle--given the catchy Army name of "objective individual combat weapon"--is the 20-mm air-burst round fired by its top barrel. A built-in laser range finder tells the round where in flight to explode, giving it the ability to spray lethal shrapnel in all directions, like a hand grenade, as much as half a mile from the shooter. That translates into a gun that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Be The Weapons Of The Future? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...scrawny man on the tiny log raft, drenched with salt spray and flailing on the oars, is learning the meaning of the word breakers. Most weeks, the beefy, cream-capped, electric-blue waves cresting over the reef carry hard-core surfers from around the world. But this morning they have a different job: to kick Tom Hanks' bony, tan butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Saving Tom Hanks | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...outside of the Miami house tried to alert the small crowd that something was happening. "They're here! They're here!" he shouted. When Eddie Gonzalez, 40, saw the agents moving in, he jumped over the barricade and shouted, "What the hell are you doing?" The officers immediately began spraying a green-colored pepper spray from canisters held at their waists and pushed him down to the ground. Student Fausto Vilar, 18, was hit with the butt of a rifle as he jumped over the bars. "They grabbed me and an older man behind me and pushed us down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elian Grab | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

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