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    January 5, 2009

    Out of Time News

    In one sense, the day Paul Allen bought a magazine in Cambridge was the beginning of the end for the newsstand that sold it to him. Allen showed the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics to his buddy, geeky Harvard student Bill Gates, and the computer revolution began to unfold. Today, Out of To ... More >>

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    November 19, 2008

    The Newsstand That Launched Microsoft is Closing

    A famous story in the history of Bill Gates and Microsoft takes place while the future billionaire is in college. One day Paul Allen shows his Lakeside buddy a 1974 issue of Popular Electronics. Here's how it's described in a 1994 New Yorker piece: Gates and Allen sometimes talked about how cool ... More >>

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    August 7, 2002

    All Politics Is Local

    The Monorail Needs a Checkup

  • Arts

    January 10, 2001

    Second chances

    Two St. Louis music hounds take reissues into the DIY realm.

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