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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TONY ENCLAVE OF MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., reality is a $700,000 house perched on acres of shady lawn, and crime is a plot device in a P.D. James novel. Recently, though, the disappearance of one of Morris Township's most respected citizens has brought in a gust of the world outside. Sidney Reso, the 57-year-old president of Exxon International, vanished, his car left idling at the end of his driveway, as he headed for work on the morning of April 29, and no one has seen him since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing From Action | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...reason that suburbanites are ready to circle the lawn mowers is that many of them see the cities' problems seeping into their own community. While the more distant and wealthier suburbs can still claim to be free of graffiti, gangs and drugs, urban squalor is spreading into the less fortunate towns. Wander for only a few minutes from the leafy avenues of Garden City, a New York City suburb, and you find yourself in the run-down, drug-infested apartment blocks of Hempstead. Reported robberies grew by 17% on Long Island last year. They fell by 1.6% in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Land Is Your Land. . . This Land Is My Land | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...college commencement, and Dad wants to invite more people than there are tickets for. This requires Theo to get on the phone to scrounge up more tickets, while the family exchanges wisecracks about the last time Dad brought too many people to a graduation (he set up lawn chairs for the overflow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graduating With Honors | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

...traveling show and ice cream truck, which held a circus extravaganza on the Memorial Hall lawn Wednesday, raised $877 for Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA...

Author: By Alessandra M. Galloni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ben and Jerry Come to Town | 5/1/1992 | See Source »

There are no portable toilets, and I wondered where the runners can relieve themselves. The answer is: wherever they feel like it. On telephone poles, stone walls, even the lawn of Wellesley College...

Author: By William H. Bachman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALK-DO NOT RUN | 4/24/1992 | See Source »

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