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...think dress guidelines are stupid," Lisa Bequette was saying just the other day, before beginning 8th grade at Maryland's Mount Airy Middle School, northwest of Washington. "I would wear a cropped T shirt to school. Why should they tell me not to show my belly button?" Good thing she is a little too young to meet Brendan McReady at a mixer. McReady, a junior at Bethesda- Chevy Chase High School, has some sentimental regard for the school uniforms at an alma mater: "Everyone wore the same thing every day, so perhaps it was easier. You'd get up, throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: What The Kids Are Wearing | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

Lesotho, a nation of about 1.6 million people about the size of Maryland, is officially a constitutional monarchy but is ruled by a six-man military council in consultation with King Moshoeshoe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 60 Held in S. Africa Hijacking | 9/14/1988 | See Source »

...Bridget and Tom Hotchkiss of Evanston, Ill., who returned in July from a slow-moving car trip to the Maryland shore with their sons Tommy, 6, and Patrick, 3, vow never to do it again. Says Bridget: "Ever since we got home, the boys have been playing a new game. They get out all their big trucks and all their cars. I hear them saying, 'Let's play Traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gridlock! Congestion on America's highways and runways | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...that attract more and more home buyers. The Washington Beltway is a notoriously clogged 64-mile loop that carried an estimated 466,000 vehicles a day in 1976 and now handles 735,000. The average speed for Beltway commuters driving across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge from Virginia suburbs to Maryland communities is currently 23 m.p.h., down from 47 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gridlock! Congestion on America's highways and runways | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Some blacks found this offensive. Alan Keyes, a former State Department / official who is the G.O.P. candidate in Maryland's Senate race, initially refused to address the convention when organizers asked him to talk about being a "black and a Republican." "I am not going to be a token," said Keyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans: A Big Time in the Big Easy | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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