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...seen it in the papers in headlines like BANANA SPLIT or GOING BANANAS. But Clark Davis isn't laughing. One day the quality-assurance engineer was contentedly playing in the basement of his Wexford, Pa., home with his N-gauge model railroad--three lines spread over 36 sq. ft. of diorama, styled after turn-of-the-century Europe. The next day, Davis, 66, heard from his supplier of German-made Fleischman engines that not only could the price be doubling but the supplier's hobby shop might even be put out of business. All because the U.S. wants to punish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banana Wars | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...1960s, no one realized that Teotihuacan's great Avenue of the Dead, anchored at its northern end by the Pyramid of the Moon and flanked by the even larger Pyramid of the Sun and other ceremonial buildings, was the core of a much larger metropolis. Indeed, at 8 sq. mi. and with an estimated population of 150,000, Teotihuacan was the largest city in Mesoamerica in its heyday (about A.D. 500) and one of the six largest in the world--larger even than Rome. Its political power reached all the way to Mayan city-states hundreds of miles away, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: City Of The Gods | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

Thus the risk to the lenders was small, and so were the houses: 750 sq. ft., two bedrooms, living room and kitchen, with an unfinished second floor and no garage. All the same, compared with the cramped arrangements of the cities, even a place that size seemed sumptuous and full of potential. Levitt understood this well enough to see himself as more than a builder. He was a prime facilitator of the American Dream in its cold war formulation. "No man who owns his own house and lot can be a communist," he once said. "He has too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suburban Legend WILLIAM LEVITT | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...female-male 10 Yes N/A Leonard Stephen Salon 54 JFK St. Tu, F 8:15-5 W-Th 8:15-6 Sa 8-4 $35-$45 for wash, cut and dry Highlights--$85+ Perms--$75+ Colors--$35+ 60-40 female-male 6 Strongly Recommended N/A Great Cuts One Eliot Sq. M-F 9-9 Sa 9-6 Su 10-6 $9.95 for a basic cut Shampoo--add $3 Blow Dry--add $4-$7 More male than female 12 No 15 min. - 1 hr., longest on weekends Gino's 20 Holyoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUTTING EDGE: THE SALONS OF HARVARD SQUARE | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

...They are now searching mainly for biological weapons--small, easily hidden stores of anthrax, botulinum and aflatoxin, along with growth medium to produce new supplies. U.S. inspectors have privately concluded that Saddam has at least one biological facility that may be secreted in a room no bigger than 25 sq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Out Saddam | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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