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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greatest thief of childhood is conformity, an insight that informs The Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine (Atheneum; $11.95). Three hens are driven by that ageless query: Which is the most beautiful? The king makes a Solomonic decision: whoever produces the most wonderful egg will be made a princess. One hen immediately lays a perfectly shaped egg; another creates an egg so large that it would make an ostrich jealous; the third gets up from her nest to reveal an egg in shape and shades not unlike Rubik's Cube. In the end, the king awards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Mixture of Humor and Wonder | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

DELAWARE 31, PENN 24--Ever seen a Fightin' Blue Hen...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Down on the Farm | 9/24/1983 | See Source »

Silvar said that the group will continue can assing. Boston communities--mainly Dorchester, Mattapan, Roxbury, and the South End--until the September primary, and will hen pick up again before the final elections in October...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Seymour Society Participates in Movement To Increase Minority Voter Registration | 8/2/1983 | See Source »

...White Hen Pantry: Located down Mass. Ave. past the Cambridge Common, you'll find the mile walk towards Porter Square worth it if you are a deli maven. It has twice as big a selection of packaged food as the 24 and open the whole day and night. The added bonus is the delicatessen offering, where someone will make you a relatively good deli sandwich and fresh salad. This is the sleeper of the group, and the walk is beautiful these days and should keep you awake if the food doesn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: After the Witching Hour | 6/26/1983 | See Source »

Like its predecessors, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (Norton; $15.50) is a banquet of anecdotes, insights and revelations on natural history. The 30 essays range from a humorous discourse on the shrinking size of the Hershey bar to the woeful tale of male anglerfish that attach themselves for life to a female of the species and become little more than "a penis with a heart." He tackles such perennial barroom brain twisters as whether the zebra's stripes are white on black or black on white (his answer: the latter). He provides refreshing new studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bones, Baseball and Evolution | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

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