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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stressing that it is more important to "build up a treasury of spirit than a treasury of wealth." Mexican scholar and writer Juan Negrin said last night the Huichol Indians of northwest Mexico possess a "nearly ideal" non-materialistic culture...

Author: By Benjamin B. Sherwood ii, | Title: Mexican Scholar | 11/24/1981 | See Source »

...been a little-noticed constituency in a fading area of South London, but last week the voters put Croydon (NorthWest) on Britain's political map. For the first time, a candidate backed by the alliance between the Liberal Party and the new Social Democratic Party (S.D.P.) took on Labor and the Tories. When the count was in, the alliance candidate had won a stunning victory, taking 40% of the vote, vs. 30.5% for the Conservatives and 26% for Labor. "We have split the old party system wide open and shown there is a real alternative," insisted William Pitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Breakthrough | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...ahead to the spring regattas, which will start around spring break. If the squad can finish among the top three at the New England Women's Championships, they will earn a long-awaited spot in the National Intercollegiate Women's Dinghy Championships, which will be held somewhere in the northwest in mid-June. Radcliffe has not competed in the event since...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Women Sailors Conclude Successful Fall Season | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...heaven. "I used to do drugs--I wasn't addicted--but I get my biggest high from the people who watch me," Meyreles says. "It's something I've always dreamed of since I was a little boy." And so for three years, first in the Northwest and then in Harvard Square, he ignored suggestions from friends who said he should put a band together and try to leave the streets for the big time...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Singing the Brattle Street Blues | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

Housing has always demanded a sacrifice. Certain literal-minded chiefs of Pacific Northwest tribes once killed slaves and captives and erected their new houses upon the bodies, for luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Downsizing an American Dream | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

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