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...marry in the Garden of Eden. They dated. In fact, they almost had the world's most perfect date: neither had to worry about what to wear. But perfection makes for boring conversation. In an attempt to jumpstart the evening, Eve partook of the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. The rest is history...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: ...and a Man's Disillusionment | 2/14/1990 | See Source »

...special permission, rarely given, to enter the border zone. Few took the trouble. On Nov. 14 East German workers cut the wire, and now hundreds of two- stroke Trabants pour across the line every day, loaded with East German shoppers headed to Wolfsburg to buy cheap clothes or tropical fruit -- or to find "gray market" jobs to pay for their purchases. And, increasingly, Volkswagens and Opels trundle in the other direction as former East Germans head back to visit friends and relatives. Polls indicate that an astounding 47 million of the 61 million West Germans plan to cross the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolution Came From the People. | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

...arms immediately after the civil rights leader was slain should give one pause. That he has never honestly explained or apologized for his anti-Jewish quip about New York City as "Hymietown," or that he failed to unequivocally denounce or distance himself from the vicious preachings of that Fruit of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, should give one a sense of extreme anxiety. As Henry Adams noted in his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, it used to be in this country that we held it as a matter of principle to elect those whom we considered our moral and intellectual best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jackson is no Saviour | 2/3/1990 | See Source »

...lived in tents in an old fruit orchard, nearly surrounded by the school's own plot of rainforest and next to a national park. There was one building on the site, with a kitchen, and that was where the professors (from nearby James Cook University) lived. A tarped-off area next to it, filled with rickety green tables, served as our study area...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Creatures From the Land Down Under | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...weather was especially hard on growers in Texas' depressed Rio Grande valley, where fruit and vegetable production is the leading industry; citrus losses in that area alone could reach $55 million. Winter vegetables, including celery, cauliflower, radishes and broccoli, were heavily damaged in the South. In Florida, virtually the entire $200 million vegetable harvest might be gone, and in Texas only about 20% of the crop might be salvaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Rimes with Citrus? | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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