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...place, she says, where she never imagined she would be. Kathleen once considered becoming a nun and spent time planting pistachio trees on a New Mexico reservation. When she got married, her bridesmaids gave her a potter's wheel. "I didn't think I'd run for political office," she told TIME. "I grew up in a family that loved politics, but it was for the men, not the women." The women, she said, were "supposed to work hard." And unlike the boys, to toe the line. Her letters to her grandmother Rose came back full of corrections, written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Kennedys | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...condition and that there are nearly as many types of synesthesia as there are permutations of the senses. While synesthetic responses are usually as unique as fingerprints, the condition runs in families. Nabokov, for example, for whom the letter b evoked the color burnt sienna, and t, pistachio green, often argued with his equally synesthetic mother about the true colors of the alphabet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ah, The Blue Smell Of It! | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

Gains in Latin American fruit, flowers and other agricultural exports are supposed to help offset losses in other areas, and North America's normally pro-trade farmers are worried. Says Shawn Stevenson, a citrus and pistachio farmer in California's San Joaquin Valley: "It's hard to compete against folks who don't have the regulatory burden we do, or a minimum wage, or high fuel prices." Brazilian producers of frozen, concentrated orange juice are thirstily eyeing the U.S. market, in which they once enjoyed a 45% share. That was before the U.S. industry got Washington to impose whopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond NAFTA: Oranges For Bulldozers | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...finally get to buy an extra large T-shirt and drink a beer without getting full? My grandfather used to buy me weight gainer as a present every Christmas, but now the whole family is worried I might actually get fat. In the meantime, I'm all about pistachio milkshakes from Ben & Jerry...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...tking me out agn, u lousy toad? ive nvr hd a pistachio milkshk. i dnt know if my asian digestv tract cn tk it. wat do u think...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

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