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...think about all the scenic spots that you would be driving through on your way there. In Baltimore for instance, they've taken three downtown blocks, picked up the trash, planted a few trees and called it urban redevelopment. No need for travelers checks here. In Kentucky they have caves. "Come see the fantastic Frankfort caves!" Personally, I can't think of a better way to spend my vacation than crawling around in a cave. Signs everywhere tell you to watch out for the scorpions. Someone in the back of the tour group always reminds you, "They can't kill...

Author: By Todd A. Valdes, | Title: No Sour Grapes | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...llama named Louie stick their heads out to nuzzle. We go to the garage and climb the stairs to the second story. It is a picture gallery. The walls and ceilings are papered with hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the Jackson family. It is like a cave whose walls map out history. The Jacksons grow up on these walls. A corner of the room is filled with boxes of the get-well cards and gifts Michael received after his hair caught on fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: He Hasn't Gone Crazy over Success | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...safe," replied Curtin. "Everything is on microfilm somewhere in a cave in Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: A Convention for Inventions | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

...biggest loss so far was a case decided last fall, where the judge awarded a patient $1,250,000 for damages suffered when Beth Israel doctors accidentally cut her renal cave artery while cleaning out her spinal column, Creasey said. But he stressed the difficulty of distinguishing between the high risks of some procedures and actual malpractice...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: Harvard Insurance Firm To Up Malpractice Fees | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

...were the scaffold and the derelicts' hospital. Most of the people were old, emaciated men who died alone; his observations of women were sometimes the merest guesswork. An extreme case is a drawing in this show of the female genitalia, which are represented as an absence, a mere cave, without even primary features. It may be that Leonardo, a homosexual with a pronounced distaste for any kind of sexual act, could not bring himself to look at a vagina. "The act of coitus and the parts employed therein," he wrote on another sheet, "are so repulsive that were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beyond the Skin's Frontier | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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