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...race for Massachusetts State Treasurer has developed into a contest of reputations and personal ethics, with both sides slinging and dodging veritable landslides of mud...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Hampers, Crane In Mudslinging Battle | 10/7/1986 | See Source »

Perhaps against the arch curves of French Designer Claude Montana or the dramatic drapery of Japan's Issey Miyake, Lauren's work is stick-in-the-mud. But Lauren sticks to what he knows and has never claimed to be wildly original or abstract. Says a longtime fan, Actress Candice Bergen: "He incorporates the things you've loved for years. I'm basically not one who is comfortable in massive shoulder pads or the trendy things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...vacant storage sites. Eventually the press corps was offered a field trip to a captured drug laboratory known as El Zorro. When reporters assembled at the air base last Tuesday, sputtering engine noises drowned out officials' attempts at a dignified briefing. Then DEA's DC-3 got stuck in mud up to its propellers while attempting to take off. Twenty Bolivian MPs finally had to push it out of the mire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia High Aims, Low Comedy | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...result of a conspiracy between the Government and energy companies eager to mine the reservation's riches. Meanwhile, Danny Blackgoat has decided to move back to Big Mountain. He wants to be near his mother and rebuild an abandoned hogan, the traditional Navajo dwelling of juniper logs and mud. His mother, stoic and unyielding, welcomes the support. "The Creator," she vows, "is the only one that's going to relocate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bury My Heart At Big Mountain | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...other words," says Kuban, "there was no question that a dinosaur was capable of making these elongated prints." He offers several explanations for the toelessness, all acceptable to paleontologists: soft mud might have filled the narrow toe marks soon after the dinosaur walked by. Then, too, some other material may have sifted into the toe marks long after the prints hardened. Or perhaps, for some reason, erosion distorted the prints. Even before Kuban's findings, mainstream scientists did not lose much sleep over the Paluxy footprints. Says Harvard Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, who has visited the site: "Everyone knows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Defeat for Strict Creationists | 6/30/1986 | See Source »

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