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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...could demonstrate the distinctive "burp" that guaranteed longer lives for leftovers. (Tupperware was a roaring success; Tupper sold the company for $9 million in 1958.) For Americans who didn't want to purchase an entire line of pastel plastic containers, Dow Chemical started selling Saran Wrap in 1953, and Ziploc storage bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leftovers | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

...Emergency Operation Center - believed to be on safe ground - called him on the phone and told him the building was rapidly filling with water. "They all wrote numbers on their arms with indelible ink, then listed their names and numbers on a sheet of paper, put it in a Ziploc bag, and tacked it to the roof," Pollard says. "We were taping final messages from them to their families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Katrina, but Gustav Still Hurt | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...ITTF mandates that the glue cannot contain volatile chemicals, and only allows adhesives approved by the federation. They also collect every athlete's bat 30 minutes prior to a match and run it through a rigorous inspection for weight, sponge thickness and volatile compounds, returning the paddles in Ziploc bags to the referee just before play begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sticky Business of Table Tennis | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...Weeds” is written in one of these veins—and that each is still finding success. 2006 found Mary-Louise Parker awarded with a Golden Globe for her funny, tender portrayal of a widowed mother driven to a life of Ziploc bags and gram scales in order to maintain her upper-middle-class status on “Weeds.” Her show has fast become Showtime’s most-watched comedy, according to Nielsen Media Research, with a 19% increase in third-season viewership from the previous season. Equally chest-inflating are the first...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drugs, Dirty Deeds Spell Success For Showtime | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

Right now I have no idea if I'm cooking. I'm standing at a Dream Dinners location in Burbank, Calif., next to a lot of moms. Following a posted recipe, we're scooping cubes of frozen, dry-looking chicken into a Ziploc bag, adding measuring cups full of chopped frozen vegetables, liquid smoke, minced garlic and barbecue sauce. We're making a week's worth of these meals, putting Ziploc bags of meat and Ziploc bags of vegetables and Ziploc bags of seasonings inside bigger Ziploc bags to protect the smaller Ziploc bags. I deeply suspect that the meals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outsourcing Home Cooking | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

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