Bashing the burbs
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The movie 'American Beauty' joins the ranks of other movies and books that portray suburbia as a wasteland of conformity with a dark underbelly, whose residents are dangerously repressed. This perception may comfort urban dwellers who are actually afraid of living in the suburbs because they are resistant to growing up and being any one person, living any one life.
Publication Name: The New York Times Magazine
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ISSN: 0028-7822
Year: 1999
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Behind the pattern
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Quilters should simplify a grid in piecing complex shapes, thus making a complicated pattern a pieceable quilt design. This is done by picturing the obvious shapes as consisting of simpler shapes. By dividing the pattern into shapes composed of many small parts, the entire pattern is reduced to simple subunits.
Publication Name: Threads
Subject: Fashion and beauty
ISSN: 0882-7370
Year: 1996
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A Bad Cuppa
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India placed an embargo on exports of high quality tea at the end of 1983. Higher prices abroad will subsidize domestic tea prices. This is a bad long-run policy for a single cash-crop producer.
Publication Name: Economist
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1984
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