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...gray market offers considerable bargains for the wary consumer and has grabbed about a $5.5 billion chunk of the nation's retail trade. This includes $ an estimated 30% of high-quality camera sales. These goods are sold across the country by such giant chains as K mart and Montgomery Ward, as well as by local specialty outlets. Some stores carry both gray-market products and normally discounted goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Gray Market | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...fact, the earth seems to be reclaiming this abused chunk for its own purposes. The maples and sycamores look healthy, grasses and wild flowers are thick and high. Grasshoppers hiss. A flock of wild turkeys has moved in, as well as a pack of coyotes and some deer. "It's amazing," says the former mayor, "all these yellow flowers! They were never here before." The wild growth, however, poses a problem: vandals, looters and arsonists can hide from the security patrols more easily. But that may be remedied. "I believe the state of Missouri," says Leistner, "is looking into defoliating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Gingerich managed to include a clever trick in each of his lectures--whether it was allowing each of the more than 200 students in the class to handle a chunk of plutonium or showing a film of an eclipse set to the tune of "Here Comes...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Credit for Fun | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

Gingerich managed to include a clever trick in each of his lectures--whether it was allowing each of the more than 200 students in the class to handle a chunk of plutonium or showing a film of an eclipse set to the tune of "Here Comes...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Credit for Fun | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

Gingerich managed to include a clever trick in each of his lectures--whether it was allowing each of the more than 200 students in the class to handle a chunk of plutonium or showing a film of an eclipse set to the tune of "Here Comes...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Credit for Fun | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

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