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...Point Sal Road, the main street. Just off Point Sal stands a TV satellite dish nearly as big as its owners' trailer home. On the lot next door, a slack-bellied black horse eats greens. Early on a weekday afternoon, Casmalia is quiet but not silent: somewhere chickens crow, a toddler yelps, and Linda Ronstadt sings. "A lot of people don't like a town like this," says Phyllis Vaniter, "but we do." They may like it, but they hate the smell. During the past year, FOR SALE signs have appeared up and down Point...

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

Moore has published more than 20 articles and books on topics ranging from Law and Anthropology (her specialty), to the Chagga tribe of Tanzania, to "assymetrical crosscousin marriage and Crow-Omaha terminology." Choice magazine named her book, Law and Process, one of 1978's best academic works...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: A Busy Woman | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

Moore has published more than 20 articles and books on topics ranging from Law and Anthropology (her specialty), to the Chagga tribe of Tanzania, to "asymmetrical cross-cousin marriage and Crow-Omaha terminology." Choice magazine named her book, Law and Process, one of 1978's best academic works...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: A Busy Woman | 7/30/1985 | See Source »

...have been there six days, let alone six months") was thrown back at him as the world watched. He was chastened. But one of Reagan's strengths is that at such moments, he has an extraordinary control of his temper. Common sense crowds out darker impulses, and after eating crow for half an hour on prime time, the President -- and the country -- mercifully moved on. Now, like his predecessor, Reagan is learning that moving the fleet and grimacing on television have little effect on a fanatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhetoric Gives Way to Reality | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...Coop orders extras, but a basketball player might end up with a gown meant for a jockey. The last-minute process is complicated by the little crow's foot emblem on Harvard's gowns, unlike any other University's prevents students from running down to M.I.T. and grabbing a gown...

Author: By Jonathan M. Weintraub, | Title: Cashing in on Commencement | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

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