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...million to spruce up the office furniture at the Defense Language Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Adds Up | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...Sixteenth and Callowhill, Broad and Spruce, 15th and J.F.K., Eighth and Vine, 18th and Vine...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Gather in Philidelphia | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...evening came and conventioneers across town prepared to hear retired general Norman H. Schwartzkopf's remarks on military readiness, the splintered groups coalesced around a few large demonstrations, mostly at blocked intersections. At Spruce and Broad streets, about 300 protesters had gathered in the center of one of the city's busiest streets and the main route from the hotels to the convention...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Gather in Philidelphia | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

Americans in general are a clean people. They like to spruce up even the hardest-to-reach places on their bodies. This is a country where dental floss comes in several flavors and people willingly engage in colonic irrigation to get all the nasties out of their large intestines--and where otherwise smart folk habitually ignore all warnings and put Q-Tips too far into their ears. But apparently Q-Tips aren't quite enough. The newest instrument for getting the muck out of that pesky ear canal is a lighted candle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ear Candling | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...color commentary grated on the nerves, and some guy named Vijay ended up winning it all by the comfortable margin of three strokes. I found myself sitting in front of my roommate's TV shaking my head. At that moment of despair, I realized that golf needed to spruce up its image in the coming years to attract the viewers necessary to compete with the likes of Chuck Norris...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: Different Strokes for Golf | 4/13/2000 | See Source »

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