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...Stephen Crane sold paper to engraver Paul Revere to print the colonies' first paper money. (A national currency did not exist until 1862.) In 1806 Stephen Crane's son Zenas began producing notes for a local bank. It's an art that the company has perfected; its "tree-free" paper lasts longer than any other paper currency in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manufacturing: Money's Paper Chase | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...Toronto, stop by the folk club Hugh's Room for "a special musical tribute ... 'The Dylan Tree,' a night of songs, astute observations, crazy musical portraits, common sense preaching and beautiful melodies from the 20th century man of the mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Dylan at 65 | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction.Of course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point. The artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, “Did the philosophical...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 5/17/2006 | See Source »

Paula Lane WAVELAND, MISS. As water filled the house where Lane and her friend Roy Henderson sought shelter, Henderson dived into the floodwaters and returned with a small boat that had been tied to a neighbor's tree. Clinging desperately to their tiny ark, 10 people floated to safety through the hurricane's winds. "It felt like somebody dropped nuclear bombs on us. There's a lot of dead people here. We've lost a lot of family members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Storm Lashed | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

...University of Sydney is revealing. She found that the combination of tax cuts and additional family payments in recent years has produced a dual shift in the tax burden: the largest income gains are going to single-earner families and to those at the top of the earnings tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet Howard's Welfare Mothers | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

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