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...first three groups. Leif and Lori--described by a neighbor as "the kind of girl who used to wear jeans, climb fences and carry rocks in her pockets"--were married outdoors on a working ranch in a small grove of oak trees by a creek. Thinking about the troubled farm economy, Rancher John Wilson looked around and said, "It's a happy thing to see all the cars here and not have it be an auction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Scenes From a Marriage | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...vows, and then the gathering of 100 guests quietly sang America the Beautiful. A deer watched from behind a tree. Afterward, while the bride and bridegroom headed off for a reception in the double garage of her parents' home in Eureka, Flower Girl Elizabeth Browning wandered down to the creek and dropped petals from her bouquet into the water, watching the slow current take them away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Scenes From a Marriage | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...they take strong issue with practition-ers of "creation science," who purport to offer scientific evidence that this Fred Flintstone version of prehistory is correct. For decades a strong piece of that "evidence" has been a cluster of fossilized tracks in the seasonally dry bed of the Paluxy Creek, near Glen Rose, Texas. One track of three-toed footprints was obviously made by a dinosaur. The feet that made another track, crossing the first at an angle, lacked the giant toes and looked human to some. The fact that the two varieties of tracks were made at about the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Defeat for Strict Creationists | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO, in a small house-hospital in the tiny town of Silver Creek, N.Y., 30 miles southwest of Buffalo, Ross Charles Gennuso looked down at his grandson Brian Ross Gennuso and muttered, "There's gonna be a bright...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: The Life of Brian | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...years ago, the waterfront along Vancouver's False Creek, a narrow inlet off the city's main harbor, was covered with rusting railroad tracks and a few ramshackle factories. Garbage was strewn everywhere. Today the 173-acre site is the home of Expo 86, the Canadian world's fair that opens May 2 and runs through Oct. 13. The fair's theme is transportation, and visitors will be able to gaze at exhibits ranging from a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to a Japanese high- speed passenger train that can travel more than 250 m.p.h. Moored in the harbor are dozens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Westward Ho to Expo 86 | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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