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...Bring You the Soul of America, I undertook a journalistic odyssey to determine the causes behind this obsession with all things green an lush (or smelly and insect-ridden for you urban purists...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: My Country Tis of Tree | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...while Ruggles' odyssey took place, the commission forgot its intransigience toward granting new liquor licenses. Since Ruggles was first denied, the commission has given three licenses--to the Charles Square Hotel, to Grendel's Den, and most recently the Wursthaus license, allowing that restaurant to serve liquor on the sidewalk...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: All This for a Pint O' Beer | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...fact an old space hand, having already logged more than 30 million miles before its billion-mile cometary odyssey. Measuring 5 ft. tall and 5 1/2 ft. in diameter, the drum-shaped spacecraft was launched on Aug. 12, 1978; as one of three vehicles in the International Sun-Earth Explorer project, it was named ISEE-3 and designated to orbit a sun-earth libration point (where the gravitational pull of the sun precisely nullifies terrestrial gravity) 930,000 miles from the earth. Its mission: to study the effect of the solar wind on the earth's magnetic field. Yet even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Upstaging of Halley's Armada | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...odyssey of the 1985 Harvard men's lacrosse team finally ended Saturday with a 13 7 loss at Dartmouth...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: Green Drops Laxmen Into Cellar in Finale | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

Going some place in a feverish hurry, though exactly where is the next question, a bay bullet called Spend A Buck streaked away with the Kentucky Derby last week, posting the third-sprightliest mile and a quarter (2:00 1/5) in 111 springs at Churchill Downs. Stephan's Odyssey finished second, more than five lengths behind, and the 6-to-5 favorite, Chief's Crown, was third. Far up the track, or at least it seemed so, came that old plug tradition, which may be losing ground even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spend a Buck, Make a Buck | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

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