Word: logs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vegetables becoming too expensive? Plant a garden. Mortgage loans unavailable? Put together your own log cabin in the woods. No job openings despite your Ph.D. in astronomy? Get together with other unemployed astronomers and build yourselves an observatory. Implausible as that last exercise in self-reliance may sound, just such a project is in the works a mile high in California's coastal mountains. There, a band of six young astronomers, all graduates of Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, are building what they avidly hope will become a major independent observatory...
...theft of the art objects was reported to the Harvard police last Thursday, with a request became public when it appeared in the Cambridge police log yesterday...
...Suddenly, a drunk man broke the stillness, driving his Skidoo wildly along the muddy riverbank, shouting to himself and to his wife who stood surrounded by children in the doorway of their house. The Skidoo lurched over the bank and down to where a boat was tied to a log. There he threw it and himself into the boat, announced that he was off for La Romaine (a primarily Indian town 150 miles south along the coast) and headed down the river. Three days later he was back chopping wood in front of his house...
...Organisms with a life span of five years, like that of the beetle grub, would be able to survive even a five year trip inside a log," Fell said. Marine organisms like barnacles could also be transported on the outside of the log, he said...
Weingarten said he will ask local bicycle dealers to keep a log of serial numbers on new bikes sold. The Bicycle Workshop will also imprint free of charge serial numbers on bicycles for owners who can present proof of purchase, he said...