Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like a drunk waking up from a 20-year binge with a massive hangover, the nation is bitter, remorseful and full of resolution. The easy tolerance of the late 1960s, when turning on was a statement of personal freedom, has turned to dread. Cocaine, the glamour dust of the late '70s -- fast, clean, fun! -- has been boiled down to hard and mean little pellets of crack, giver of euphoria, taker of lives. To a nation that espouses self-reliance, drug dependence has emerged as the dark side of the American character, the price of freedom to fail...
...from shopping bag to airplane seat to coffee table to Harvard memorial bookshelf and a place of esteem next to Erich Segal's The Class, last year's reunion volume. Alums should do themselves a favor by giving The Class another read and leaving this 350th momento to collect dust...
Astronomers for decades have offered a persuasive argument to explain how stars are born: one of the huge, tenuous clouds of gas and dust that pervade the galaxy collapses under its own weight, heats up dramatically and bursts into nuclear flame. Until now though, this has been only a model. But in a report to be published in the Oct. 1 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of astronomers will announce that they finally have supporting evidence. Says Charles Lada, professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona: "We've detected what we believe to be the actual collapse...
...payoff is well worth the trouble. The divers have retrieved more than $15 million in silver coins, gold dust, and artifacts; the Whydah's bell alone has been appraised at $5 million. Clifford, who has meticulously studied the manifests and other records of the 50-odd ships plundered by the Whydah's captain before his ship sank, estimates that the loot still in the sand is worth $380 million more. It includes 500,000 to 750,000 silver coins, 10,000 lbs. of gold dust, a casket of "hen's-egg-size East Indian jewels" and some African ivory...
...ugly scourge of old was drought and dust storms that tore the earth apart. And it is again this summer in the South. Yet that is temporary. The more menacing scourge is verdant bounty as far as the eye can see in the nation's midsection and diminishing markets for the rich harvests. Dan Rather and his combat jacket have long ago left the hogpens to report on other worldly terrors, like the wedding of Andy and Fergie. Hollywood's Jessica Lange and Country are wilted memories. Farm foreclosures are too common to rate as pop drama any longer...