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VIII. Problems. Unfortunately, many romance novel covers reveal an artist's lack of skill. Eden, by Cordia Byers, shows a couple lying in a barn full of hay. But what exactly is the woman leaning on? It's unclear what is supporting her back, though apparently, from the position of her legs, she is leaning on something; perhaps a bale...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Understanding the Romance Novel | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

...began actively campaigning to keep his job, signaling the White House that he could improve the agency's tarnished image. In a sharp contrast to the deep personnel and money cuts supported by Burford, he prepared supplemental budgets seeking more congressional funds. He also dismissed EPA Official Louis Cordia, who two years ago compiled a "hit list" of ideologically suspect agency employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down in the Dumps at EPA | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...cuts high in the mountains, the "overburden" piles up -until the rains come. Then the mud and boulders roar downhill, snapping big trees like toothpicks and tumbling onto farms, gardens and homes in the hollows below. "I just dread the day," says Alice Slone, principal of a school in Cordia, Ky., "when I'll pick up the phone and find one of the children has been buried in a strip mine slide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Price of Strip Mining | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

Spiritual & Corporal. The three friars at the cemetery of Guadix are an experiment which may in a few years become a full-fledged new order: Los Hermanos Fosores de la Miserícordia. It began with two hermits, Hilarion and Bernardo, of the Order of Our Lady of the Desert, in their hermitage near Córdoba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brothers of the Dead | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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