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...Relief workers say brawls over food and supplies are growing more common, and they fear the unrest could spread out of control unless supplies of flour, corn and other grains increase. Visible about 3,000 ft. above them, Rwanda's Nyiragongo volcano erupted, spewing ash and dust but no lava on the preoccupied refugees. U.N. officials, meanwhile, launched a new campaign to draw them back home but reported no results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RWANDA . . . FOOD FIGHTS | 8/10/1994 | See Source »

...show's "news" segment with the decidedly retro line "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead"--there is an almost insatiable appetite for 1970s-esque stuff. The founders of the "1970s preservation Society" and other entrants to the booming "nostalgia industry" are striking it rich. You may not own a lava lamp yet, but you probably will soon...

Author: By Jaques E.C. Hymans, | Title: Of Sideburns and Platform Shoes | 2/15/1994 | See Source »

...NewtonProfessional Communications System ($899) and tworechargable batteries ($49 each, from the Coop.Too urbane for you? Learningsmith at 25 BrattleStreet writes, "Nothing brings a family togetherfaster than a quick volcanic eruption. Thispopular kit has everything needed to build avolcano and, with the addition of a few commonhousehold ingredients, bring its lava flowbubbling to life." The holidays are a sharingseason; why not raze the entire neighborhood tothe ground and bring everybody together with 91volcanoes, for $1,000? Also from Learningsmith, 55stone carving kits, 40 Zen rock gardens or 33"Dimensional Man" 3-D paper male models...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Gifts for One Thousand Dollars | 12/15/1993 | See Source »

...want to re- establish broadcasting's Fairness Doctrine in order to pressure TV and radio stations to cancel his shows. And the FCC is going after Stern vigorously, during the past year fining Stern's employer $1.1 million for using words no dirtier than "rump" and "wiener" and "love lava...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big Mouths | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

Although the riff follows the basic disco patterns, the lead vocalist's solo foreshadows early '80s pop and gospel music. "We are Family" carries you into a disco paradiso of warm, mellow lava lamps, hot incense, disco togetherness, and the aura of love...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Disco Fever: It will survive | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

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