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...there is a dark side to buying on credit, as some students have found. Lured by the ease of buying on credit, some students said they underestimated the serious responsibility involved with owning credit cards. So from negligence or lack of funds, they drown in the quicksand of time and money...

Author: By Nell M. Maluf, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: You Gotta Give 'Em Credit | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...question now is whether this wonder will be lost again. The temples of Angkor are deteriorating steadily as they slowly drown in a giant swamp. While preservation efforts have focused on the facades, the foundations have been eroding. New restoration proposals by countries from Japan to Poland have raised hopes that the temples will be saved, but progress is hampered by a lack of coordinated planning and by corruption in Cambodia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of Angkor | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...network of moats and canals provided an almost continuous supply of water so that three rice crops a year could be grown. That production enabled Khmer Kings to extend their empires and build temples to their own divinity. It is the destruction of that intricate water system that could drown most of the major monuments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of Angkor | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...Reid song, are content to be sitting on their porch and "sippin' some wine/ from my coffee cup." That is, if they're drinking at all. In the video Travis Tritt made last year for The Whiskey Ain't Workin', the character he plays pointedly refuses to drown his sorrows in alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

Fortunately, Miss Julie's profundity does not drown the play. Director Hans Canosa intersperses humor between the drama to lighten the audience's mood. The play within the play (A Midsummer's Night Dream) that Miss Julie's servants stage somehow culminates in an entertaining fruit fight (complements of Harvard University Dining Services...

Author: By Sucharita Mulpuru, | Title: Sincere Miss Julie Makes a Powerful Statement | 2/27/1992 | See Source »

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