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...Vidur Mahadeva, 17, a top-scoring scholar from Wisconsin's Oshkosh North High School, puts it: "I get an awful lot of mail, especially from the little colleges-Beloit, St. Olaf and the rest." Fully 75% of four-year private colleges and 61% of state colleges and universities now buy mailing lists to send brochures to prospects. Lists of the 1.3 million juniors and seniors who take college entrance exams each year are sold to schools at roughly 12? a name-provided the students have authorized test sponsors to release their names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rah! Rah! SELL! SELL! | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...restaurant on my first morning out. Somehow it seems strange to see a Chinese restaurant in Paris, but then I think about it. "Wow," I think. "Wow, this city is a meeting place of cultures." For the moment, it escapes me that there is also a Chinese restaurant in Oshkosh, Wise...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: My Happy Summer in France | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...stimuli are natural. He reminds Bonny of how he used to fear that their baby girls would die: " 'Relax,' you'd say. Remember? But now look: it's as if they died after all. Those funny little roly-poly toddlers, Amy in her Oshkosh overalls-they're dead, aren't they?" His bitter conclusion: "They've dumped their hamsters on us and gone away." Morgan's dislike of change hardly jibes with his own shifting behavior, but it suggests that he may be as brave as he is silly. Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Rich Are Different | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

While most of us are looking forward to spending our spring break in such mundane places as Daytona Beach or back home with the folks in Oshkosh, there are still a few hardy souls in our midst with a little imagination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Classic Spring Trip: Vacationing at 'The Rock' | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...Year's Eve in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and I thought I must have had a few too many beers because I noticed the guy next to me at the bar was wearing a set of furry pants, furry arms, and furry paws. What's more, he sported a bright red and white striped sweater beneath a head that distinctly resembled the taxidea taxis in my high school biology book...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: In Search of Crimson | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

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