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Kellogg, Pfister said, has been concentrating on evolution among different classes of grasses. Baum's specialty is floral development, specifically the subset called baobabs found in Madagascar and Australia...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Plant Expert Tenured | 7/9/1993 | See Source »

Kreshtool, often wearing a bright floral tie, practically explodes with energy and enthusiasm as he demonstrates dance steps for his students...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Those Dancin' Shoes | 3/3/1993 | See Source »

...from Chinese porcelain plates with rock crystal utensils. Young princes were dressed in silk-lined caftans emblazoned with tulips and pomegranates and rocked to sleep in hazelnut cradles plated in silver and sprinkled with emeralds and diamonds. When they went to war, they donned conical helmets decorated with floral patterns and studded with turquoise and rubies, fought with ivory-inlaid muskets and swords and slept in satin-lined field tents. Even their horses pranced around in gold-plated headgear and golden stirrups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memphis Blue, Ottoman Gold | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

...increasingly ill lover to a welfare office every few months so bureaucrats could go through the pointless charade of recertifying a dying man's disability to work." So he began to join group after group and march in every demonstration he could find. This month the poet and floral decorator took on a new career, completing a certificate course at Boston University to become an AIDS educator. He plans to focus on racial minorities. "I had a lot of anger that I had to turn into something productive," he says. "We live in a society so numbed by statistics that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gays and AIDS: An Identity Forged in Flames | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

...what on earth to say to their partners. Now the Big City band was pumping up the volume, and the whole ballroom was beginning to shake. Brandon Fitch, wearing a pinstripe suit and an ear-to-ear grin, shimmied with a high-stepping blond. Daphne Moss, sporting a floral dress and white corsage, delighted her dad by letting him cut in. The usually quiet Kevin Buchberger leaped onto the dance floor and flat-out boogied for the first time in his life, while Kevin Namkoong grabbed an electric guitar and jammed with the band. The prom at Case Western Reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awakenings : Schizophrenia: A New Drug Brings Patients Back to Life | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

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