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...eleven widths from AAAAA to EEE. Such selection, plus enthusiastic salespeople, generates intense customer loyalty. So far this year, Cecelia Veal has made three trips to Reyers from Akron, 65 miles away, each time buying three pairs of shoes. Says she: "I'm a shoe freak. I love it here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Reyers Stays a Step Ahead | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...most widely publicized scientific event of the summer was not a discovery but a saving. Harvard doctors used a new method of growing sheets of skin from tiny samples to save the lives of two young brothers, who suffered burns over almost all of their bodies in a freak accident...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: While You Were Out | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...most widely publicized scientific event of the summer was not a discovery but a saving. Harvard doctors used a new method of growing sheets of skin from tiny samples to save the lives of two young brothers, who suffered burns over almost all of their bodies in a freak accident...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: While You Were Out | 9/13/1984 | See Source »

...most widely publicized scientific event of the summer was not a discovery but a saving. Harvard doctors used a new method of growing sheets of skin from tiny samples to save the lives of two young brothers, who suffered burns over almost all of their bodies in a freak accident...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: While You Were Out | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

...scientists all live inside the quarantine of their own superiority, distanced by their difference from the world they illuminate and help-recreate. To 19th century romantics the genius was a superman; to most of us today he may seem both more and less than human, an idiot savant, a freak of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mozart's Greatest Hit | 9/10/1984 | See Source »

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