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Sweat-suited and sneaker-footed, with pedometers clipped firmly at waists, they appear, sometimes before dawn, and slip quietly through the shopping-mall entrance with a wave to smiling guards. Early-bird bargain hunters? Well, no. These are not sales stalkers but a growing breed of fitness faddists, the mall walkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Make Way for the Mall Walkers | 5/26/1985 | See Source »

...unabashed leftist, Swanson is an intelligent and highly intelligible radical in an age which no longer deals kindly with the breed. Since graduating from Harvard in 1974, he has traveled in the Third World and written extensively about his findings. And whether writing on slain Chilean leader Salvador Allende, Spanish democracy or, most recently, the growing crisis in South Africa, he has never waivered in his impassioned attacks on the victimization of the poor by the rich, the Third World by the superpowers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daniel A. Swanson '74 | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...play is its best when it simply exposes the foibles, ironies, and hypocrisy of this breed of American The first act sticks much more closely to this loose structure than the second act. This latter part of the play becomes very confusing as it ignores timelines and allows class struggle to poke its nose, however discreet and upturned, out. Fortunately the second act is very short and we only see the left nostril...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: A Hive of WASPS | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

...marriages. But now split-level suburbia is the new deal on wheels. An up-and-coming crowd of diesel outriders are bringing their homes and their wives along in fully outfitted, self-contained living quarters set behind the driver's cab. If they need a handle, call this new breed truppies, upscale truckers who like to have a place to call home wherever they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Now It's Home, Home on the Road | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...Foundation in Woodside, Calif., for half a year before scampering out and into traffic. Koko, 13, who is said to have a sign-language vocabulary of about 500 words, indicated to a research associate that she wanted a replacement and picked out a drawing of a Manx, a rare breed with no tail. And now Koko has her wish, an orange male Manx kitten. "Baby," signaled the thrilled Koko. "My cat good." Michael, the center's male talking gorilla who lives in the next cage, would like the cat to be his and has proposed Banana as a name. Koko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 15, 1985 | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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