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...fashion but out of necessity. The city's tap water, many of them claim, is heavily dosed with chlorine and often dirty. Not so, says this month's issue of Consumer Reports magazine, which rates Los Angeles' drinking water as "excellent" and says it is for the most part "flawless or nearly flawless." In a test of 50 bottled waters as well as tap water from Chicago, Houston, New Orleans, New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles' H2O ranked with New York's as the best in the urban league and rated better than much of the bottled water that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: Testing the Waters | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

Catliff's four goals--along with the booters' near-flawless defensive performance--erased all questions about the potential of this year's Harvard squad. That potential was barely tested Wednesday, when the Crimson cruised to a 3-0 decision over cross-town non-rival...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: It's Catliff 4, Columbia 1 | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Dutch crew of two men and one woman waited anxiously in Newfoundland for a month before conditions finally allowed them to launch their 46-meter-tall balloon. But at last they caught the weather just right. After a flawless flight across the Atlantic, Pilot Henk Brink, 42, his wife Evelien, 31, and Fighter Pilot Willem Hageman, 39, last week became the first Europeans to accomplish the balloon voyage and, with a time of 51 hrs. 14 min., shaved more than a day off the old record. "A piece of cake," said Hageman. The only hitch in their speedy journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 15, 1986 | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...line wound south to Washington, where it was routed through the White House. Persuaded at the last minute by his daughter Maureen to take part, President Reagan stood somewhat stiffly among staff members' children and friends, using a crib sheet for some lyrics but needing no help for a flawless rendition of America the Beautiful--both verses. (Across from the White House, protesters demonstrated against the President's policies toward the homeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 9, 1986 | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...passion without pleasure. In the "beach-party" pictures of the early '60s, teenagers got pleasure but no sex; and in the recent gross-outs of Porky's and its progeny, kids found sex without commitment. Decades passed, and movie teenagers never grew up, they just grew hornier. Were these flawless bodies and voracious libidos the true mirrors of teen age? Or did kids, even those looking for wish fulfillment in the dark, want movies that shed a little light on their own lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald! | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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