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Notebook — From the October 2001 issue
Capitalism observed — From the September 1983 issue
The people people have a convention convention
Article — From the August 1971 issue
Heavy snow and cheerless rhetoric in the mountains of Colorado
After hours — From the July 1952 issue
The easy chair — From the March 1939 issue
Article — From the August 1931 issue
The drawer — From the October 1899 issue
Editor's drawer — From the November 1880 issue
Editor's drawer — From the July 1860 issue

Amount of cash CNN reporter Peter Arnett says he wore sewn into his clothes while covering the Gulf War:

Babies prefer to look at attractive people.

A woman testified that prostitutes at the “bunga bunga” parties thrown by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had dressed up as President Obama.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”