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Before Plympton Street was Plympton Street, it was Chestnut Street, named simply for the genus of tree that lined its curb. This was something of a tradition in early Cambridge, which also boasted Acacia, Ash, Camellia, and Linden Streets. Prior to the steeples and bell towers that now define Harvard...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward | Title: Get Me Rewrite! | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

Every so often, Ann would leave Indonesia to live in Hawaii-or New York or even, in the mid-1980s, Pakistan, for a microfinance job. She and her daughter sometimes lived in garage apartments and spare rooms of friends. She collected treasures from her travels-exquisite things with stories she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story of Barack Obama's Mother | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

Eva Pasco, who loosely based her novel Underlying Notes on her fragrance addiction, has boxes and trunks and specially made cabinets all over her house for her perfume collection. She calls herself a "fragrance floozy," but she's no eccentric kook. At least half a million people like her subscribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scents and Sensitivity | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

From medieval tapestry weavers to the artisans of the 20th century Arts and Crafts movement, interior designers have often tried to bring a little bit of the outdoors inside. But rarely has there been such a varied array of options to choose from as now. From the realistic re-creations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Home with Nature. | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

Finally, the bad news: 2007 WD5 has only a 1-in-75 chance of actually hitting Mars, which means astronomers would be wise to be pessimistic. But the possibility of impact calls to mind a loosely related incident that occurred almost exactly 100 years ago, when something exploded above the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Asteroid Hurtles Toward Mars | 12/27/2007 | See Source »

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