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...remember flying in and thinking that this place is only 25 square mile, but you really get into the laid back lifestyle," he says. "You get a totally different perspective on what happiness and life is. You expect everyone in your environment to have the same goals, the same outlook on life. The Polynesians certainly have different ideas about morality. Their attitude is if it's fun, go with...

Author: By Brandon Bradkin, | Title: Going For The Gap | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...North Sea harbor was calm but cold at 7:50 p.m. as the ferry Herald of Free Enterprise pulled out of the slip at Zeebrugge, Belgium, to begin its regular 85-mile run to the British port of Dover. Darkness had just fallen, and the 543 passengers and crew, most of them British, were settling in for the 4 1/2-hour journey. Some were day trippers returning to Dover after a promotional tour sponsored by the Sun, a London tabloid. Others were British soldiers on leave from their units in West Germany. The ferry was about three- fourths of a mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tragic End for Day Trippers | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

Many Europeans remain concerned about Soviet shorter-range nuclear arms. These can be fired up to 560 miles, compared with the 3,000-mile range of the SS-20s, and could still hit West European targets. The Soviet arsenal includes some 500 such missiles in Europe, while NATO has none. The U.S. draft treaty tabled in Geneva includes provisions for NATO to match the Soviets' shorter- range systems. But even if Moscow is cooperative, efforts to equal Soviet strength would require new NATO deployments. That could provoke a painful repeat of the parliamentary debates and ugly street protests that attended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarmament Let's Make a Deal | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

Haggerty started Rainey off slowly, entering her in the sprints rather than in the longer races. As she grew stronger, Haggerty moved her up to the quarter mile, and she's been improving ever since...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Track's Meredith Rainey | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

Senior Paul Kent was the only other Harvard team member to place in an event. Kent took fourth in the one-mile run with a time of 4:03.55, just .01 seconds behind the third place finisher...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Thinclads Humbled | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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