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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specialty book stores dot several corners and fill at least three basements. For textbooks and general reading, your best bet is to start with the Harvard Coop. Most of the Square crowd lingers on the first floor with the bestsellers and picture books. But brave the escalator to check out the fiction and slightly scholarly tomes on the second level. Textbooks are on floor three. One reminder: return textbooks within three weeks of purchase, or you'll be stuck with them...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Cambridge Stacks | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

...will have to travel beyond Harvard Square to find most live bands and dancing. But, fear not, you won't have to buy subway tokens to get to most movies because the Square offers some good theaters within walking distance. Check out The Phoenix each week for complete listings of evening entertainment. Buy tickets for big concerts and nightclub bands at Out of Town News, Strawberry Records, Ticketron or the box offices. If it's concert tickets you want, make sure you go early, because the high-school kids always seem to eat them up quickly and scalp them...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Entertainment is Up When the Lights are Down | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

...link may help explain why toxic shock typically occurs on the fourth day of a woman's period, when the menstrual flow has diminished. During the previous days, the volume of fluid is greater, and, Kass believes, there is probably enough unabsorbed magnesium present to keep toxin production in check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Magnesium Connection | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

Puzzled, F. Polyak, the factory director, contacted the Moscow railway department, through whose territory the missing freight should have passed. No luck. Next, Polyak asked the South Western railway directorate, only to be told to get in touch with its Belorussian equivalent. The reply there: check with Moscow. Finally, Polyak queried the central search section of the Rail Ministry itself. He was informed that "it was not possible to do anything" because the shipment documents had routinely been destroyed after a year. No matter that the train had left less than a year before. Said Pravda: "Even Sherlock Holmes from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Missing the Train | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...Sheridan's School for Scandal, the prologue clucks hypocritically about rumormongering: "Caus'd by a dearth of scandal, should the vapours/ Distress our fair ones -- let 'em read the papers." That advice is still being followed at supermarket check-out counters. In Jane Austen's Persuasion, a shut-in hears neighborhood news: "Call it gossip if you will; but when nurse Rooke has half an hour's leisure to bestow on me, she is sure to have something to relate that is entertaining and profitable, something that makes one know one's species better." What the invalid learns is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talk, Talk, Talk Gossip | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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