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Traditionally, canister-style vacuum cleaners have been, well, a drag. But the Airider is designed to push itself 1/8 in. off the floor. You'll barely notice it floating behind you while you're sucking cat hair out of your carpet. $399; May; airider.co.uk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home: The Future Of Homemaking | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...times," he says--during the Cultural Revolution (when he was sent to farm peanuts in the countryside), when he went to the U.S. to study and when he returned to China and realized that all his American M.B.A. lessons couldn't be applied back home. "There's a belief vacuum in China, which means that many people only believe in money," Huang says. "That means there are con artists everywhere. They will cook their books. They will lie during presentations." As China's experiment in what he calls "raw capitalism" carries on, the re-education of Comrade Huang no doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowing Capitalist Seeds | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...local oligarchs," a Middle Eastern diplomat told me. "There may be, as President Bush believes, a general desire for freedom, but the number of people who really understand democracy and free-market economics is very small, and it's groups like Hizballah that are ready to move into the vacuum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Who Has a Shot at the Nobel Peace Prize | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

With the arrival of this titillating culinary experience comes an alarming realization: there is a shocking lack of vending machine diversity on the Harvard campus. While other universities enjoy their personal pizzas and vacuum delivered ice creams, Harvard students are left with stale pretzels and flat Cherry Coke. Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper exists, but we aren’t tasting...

Author: By Joanna J. Parga, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Amazing! | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...boycott Dormaid. Everyone’s certainly busy, but Harvard students shouldn’t choose convenience over healthy relationships with their blockmates. It’s up to each one of us to ensure that our peers feel comfortable on campus, and if that means plugging in a vacuum every two weeks, then...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Maid for Harvard? | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

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