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...copy of the magazine you are now holding in your hands is destined for a time capsule, a green-tinted 18-inch steel cube, to be deposited in the museum of the Statue of Liberty. In addition to this week's TIME, which contains memorable photographs of 1986 and a letter to the people of 2086 by Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt, the capsule will include high-quality original prints of the pictures in this week's Images section, as well as next week's Man of the Year issue. When the container is opened, the contents should help explain much...
Students disagree over whether wings are a better deal than 'za. A two-pound order of the wings costs $4.85 and contains about 20 wings, while a 16-inch cheese pizza runs about $7.00 from Pizza Wheel and Pizza Ring, who also deliver to campus...
...Bears. No holiday season would be complete without a few cuddly creatures. Calliope (33 Brattle) sells three inch high antique bears, for just $3. If money is no object, check out their huge Paddington for $350. For those who are tired of intellectual dining hall conversation, there's always the $89 animated Teddy Ruxpin at FAO Schwarz (40 Newbury...
...Kites. To indulge those soaring spirits further, check out the goods at Outermost Kites (Faneuil Hall). For $4.95 they'll sell you a dragon kite with an 80-inch streamer tail. A limited edition Sanyo rokkaku kite, complete with Samurai warriors, sells...
...large star that has collapsed under its own gravity and then exploded, leaving behind a spinning, tightly packed ball of neutrons. Incredible as it seems, that ball, which is more massive than the sun, is only ten miles or so in diameter and is so dense that a cubic inch would weigh 100 billion tons on earth. Its partner in the celestial dance is a white dwarf, a dying star once comparable in size and mass to the sun that has burned up its fuel and shrunk to about three times the size of the earth. But the dwarf still...