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...British people presented Queen Mary, grandmother of Queen Elizabeth, with a dolls' house as a gesture of gratitude and loyalty after World War I. In Queen Mary's Dolls' House (Abbeville; 191 pages; $35), Mary Stewart-Wilson opens to our view the tiniest stately home in England. The empire's finest artists, craftsmen and manufacturers contributed to the miniature royal household: Doulton sent a gilded china service for 18 (including 22 serving and covered vegetable dishes); Waygood Otis built two working elevators; and Cartier made seven clocks and two barometers. A.E. Housman, who allowed some of his poems...
...back and forth like in a college dorm. Their rooms are filled with VCRs, miniskirts, Japanese cameras and fluffy pink stuffed animals, but they are far from feeling at ease. "I miss the chickens that used to play on the ground at home," said Ntomb'khona Dlamini, 17, the tiniest cast member at less than 5 ft. Her television is turned to MTV, where the rockers gyrate in Day-Glo. Daughter of an evangelical preacher in Umlazi, outside Durban, she sang in a choir with her sister and four brothers. "In South Africa I didn't know Broadway...
...Reagan Administration calls its new drug policy "zero tolerance," meaning that planes, vehicles and vessels may be confiscated for carrying even the tiniest amount of a controlled substance. And tiny means just that. Last week the U.S. Coast Guard seized the Ark Royal, a $2.5 million, 133-ft. yacht that was in international waters between Mexico and Cuba. The onboard stash: one-tenth of an ounce of marijuana. Because only the captain and crew were on board at the time of the raid, it was not even apparent that the grass had been used by the yacht's owner. Though...
...half full, they are the same, yet connote very different things, and on a topic as volatile as the modes of AIDS transmission, the difference is powerfully important. In the chapter, "Can You Catch AIDS From a Toilet Seat?", Masters and Johnson consistently refuse to rule out even the tiniest and most speculative risks. Whether they are describing the fear contained in the title, or kissing or any of the other rumors about how one catches the disease, they parlay unproven and miniscule possiblities into "some risk". Such a loose phrase could all too easily grow in the retelling...
...right for the Times to admit the error, but the prominence of the correction dismayed some staffers. Craig Whitney, the Times Washington bureau chief, said he felt "immense surprise" when he saw the headline. At the Times's New York City newsroom, where the tiniest changes are often analyzed more carefully than seating plans at the Kremlin, reporters debated the propriety of the correction. All agreed, however, that it was the most remarkable sign yet of the controlling hand of Max Frankel, who became the paper's executive editor in November...