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...know, a dozen of these big oversized specimen jars [filled with tobacco blends] and you’d just go through and smell them and talk to the salespeople,” he says. “You could buy in discrete quantities or you could buy a whole tin if you wanted. [It was] a little bit of an education in tobacco connoisseurship...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: 126 Years and Still Smoking | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...many as 200 boys and girls are enrolled in Makdah's fighting camp - a tin hangar with an asphalt parade ground, where they learn the basics of hand-to-hand combat, firearms and Palestinian national ideology. "We teach what they don't learn at United Nations schools," says one local Palestinian official. On one recent day, some 50 schoolboy cadets gathered in Makdah's office after attending a demonstration against Israeli attacks on Gaza. He offered them a lesson they are unlikely to forget. "In the past, Jews used to kill us, and no one defended us," he explained. "Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palestinians in Lebanon: A Forgotten People | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...There is some event Qdoba event where the people where tin foil or something and involves the mascot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIVE BLOG: HARVARD at Penn | 2/21/2009 | See Source »

...minutes south, on Broadway near Columbia University, Campo - "gathering place" in Italian - is living up to its name (www.camponyc.com). New York foodies congregate inside the rust-and-gold dining room (accented by exposed brick and pressed tin on the ceiling) to indulge in chef David Rotter's fresh takes on Italy's greatest hits, including fried risotto balls, monkfish milanese and chicken alla diavolo cooked under a brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harlem's Big Apple Surprise | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

Congo is the land Rwanda left behind. At the border, the road turns from asphalt to mud and grit. Rwandan officials are famous for their incorruptibility, but Congolese immigration shook me down. Beyond lies the city of Goma, a sprawl of tin- and grass-roofed huts and refugee camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo Seeks Protection | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

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