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...heard or scented me and galloped away in alarm, a feeling of awe remains. Almost always the bears run away. Sometimes if they feel that they don't have an escape route, they will bluff charge, veering away hard at the last yard, the last foot, the last inch. I don't know why they are so much more frightening in my dreams: possibly some cellular residue of caveman days. The West in many ways is a remnant of that imagination, as witnessed by the sadness of such titles as the Grizzly Drive-In, the Grizzly Auto Ranch, the University...
Managers at Circuit City, the nation's second largest electronics retailer, announced last week that it will phase out sales of videotaped movies. That pushed VCRs an inch closer to irrelevancy. But in 1984, they were the coolest Reagan-era gadget around...
...since the departure of Daim last June after a falling out with the Prime Minister. Associates say Mokhtar's ambitions extend to nothing less than turning his adopted hometown of Johor Bahru into a second Singapore by spending millions of dollars upgrading the roads and water supply, developing every inch of the 2,000 acres on which the port sits?the goal is to double or treble current capacity?and transforming the town's airport into a major air-cargo hub. Mahathir and one of Mokhtar's lieutenants made a conspicuous detour to visit the Federal Express headquarters in Memphis...
Some family members would still like the entire site reserved for a memorial. Increasingly they recognize that that's unlikely. Yet they are prepared to fight for every inch of quiet space. Silence may be the only response that can equal in power the atrocity that was Sept. 11. But in a city like New York, where commotion is everything, silence has few advocates. "We want a reflective area where people can mourn and be quiet," says Rick Bell of the American Institute of Architects. "But a district that's revitalized is also a living memorial...
That’s the secret, really. Don’t write out “TIME!!!” in inch-high scrawl—it only brings out the sadist in us. Don’t (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks—we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably...