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concentrated over there, in an increasingly thick and crammed vortex, as when a magnet hidden under a sheet of paper attracts iron filings, making patterns that become darker one moment, lighter the next, and in the end dissolve and leave on the white page a speckling of scattered fragments...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: Looking for Mr. Palomar | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...Alien Magnet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Massachusetts Opens Its Arms to Aliens | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

Brugman asserted that despite the ordinance, Cambridge has not become a magnet for aliens, saying, "It protects the people who are already here." He said the refugee population had remained fairly steady...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Massachusetts Opens Its Arms to Aliens | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

...couldn't not come--he drew you to him like a magnet," said Jim Levine, a 1967 Amherst graduate who flew in from New York for the service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Service For Bill Ward | 10/11/1985 | See Source »

...subject: the Declaration of Independence. The scene: a seventh-grade history classroom at Caddo Middle Magnet School in Shreveport, La. The teacher: a substitute who wrote his name, "Mr. Bennett," in big letters on the blackboard. His teaching method: Socratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Class Act: Bennett At the Blackboard | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

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