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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...multi-million dollar construction project includes several facets of the schools, which is arranged around a quadrangle. The East Quadrangle Research Facility (EQRF) will be a new building, housing the laboratories of several departments. Also, a 500-car garage is being built underneath the Quadrangle lawn. Some of the older Quadrangle buildings are also being renovated...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Renovations, Construction at Quad | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...garden has been restored to the state in which it was designed to be Frederick Law Olmstead in 1903," says Tosteson. Commencement will be held this year on the Quadrangle lawn, as usual, he said...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: Renovations, Construction at Quad | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Maybe, but why take the risk? Brain tumors must be excised, if possible, but dandelions don't really do any harm. In fact, they are pretty, enthusiastic, nutritious in salads and excellent for wine making. Of course, if they ever became popular, the lawn-care megacorporations would sell us patent medicine to encourage them by killing the grass. In the meantime, California may be the waterless wave of the future. In Los Angeles, Robin Thomas is trying to revive his dried yellow grass with organic products, not chemicals, because "I have children, and they play on the lawn." In Oakland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Lawns Be Justified? | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

Proving legal responsibility and collecting damages in such cases are difficult, and Latimer has had no luck. Nor, so far, has Christina Locek, 42, of River Grove, Ill., a onetime professional ice skater and pianist who says her health was destroyed in 1985 when a lawn-care service sprayed her neighbor's yard. Her cat and dog died the same day, she says, and she continues to suffer partial paralysis, substantial vision loss, headaches and blood disorders. Another woman told the Senate subcommittee that she sometimes slept in her car to avoid lawn spraying in her neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Lawns Be Justified? | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...Kennedy, but it may end up as a watershed case, because all the mysteries and passions surrounding date rape are here to be dissected. William Kennedy Smith met a woman at a bar, invited her back home late at night and apparently had sex with her on the lawn. She says it was rape, and the police believed her story enough to charge him with the crime. Perhaps it was the bruises on her leg; or the instincts of the investigators who found her, panicked and shaking, curled up in the fetal position on a couch; or the lie-detector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Is It RAPE? | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

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