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...opted for roller coaster, reasoning that I could reasonably justify eating some cotton candy later. With all of the flashing lights and beeps, I thought it could be like a Nintendo for pre-professionals--pop a cartridge in and step all over the little stock market analysts...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Climbing the Stairway to Hell | 11/20/1990 | See Source »

Seed says her name was chosen by her father, who as a child was often asked "What kind of Seed are you?" In order to save his children from a similar fate, he decided to name three of them after plants: Caraway, Cotton and Huckleberry...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Not Just Any Tom, Dick or Harry | 10/17/1990 | See Source »

...Students, institutions, or both together will have to come up with more money," Cotton said...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Area Colleges Meet In Anti-CLT Group | 10/10/1990 | See Source »

Even in the best-case scenario, students would receive only 40 percent of the state financial aid now available if CLT passes, said Clare M. Cotton, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts. Cotton said that the cuts could be so severe that the state would have to eliminate all scholarship funds...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Area Colleges Meet In Anti-CLT Group | 10/10/1990 | See Source »

...sleepy cotton fields around New Madrid, Mo. (pop. 3,400), convey no sense of seismic menace. Yet scientists say the area is potentially one of the most dangerous earthquake zones in the world. Early in the past century an unseen fault, obscured by tons of sediment, unleashed a fearsome trio of tremors -- each as powerful, some say, as the earthquake that virtually destroyed San Francisco in 1906. The eyewitness accounts read like the tall tales of Baron Munchhausen. The ground rippled with waves as though it were an ocean. The Mississippi River raged with waterfalls and rapids. Fountains of sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wake Up, East And Midwest | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

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