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Word: philadelphia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's basketball suffered two disappointing defeats over the weekend, as the Crimson was downed by Penn, 76-75, and Princeton, 86-71, in Ivy League contests at the Quakers' Palestra in Philadelphia and Jadwin Gym in Princeton...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Women Cagers Allergic to Ivy; Crimson Drops League Openers | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...keep their buildings full, hospitals aim to shed their images as sprawling, complicated, emergency-oriented places. One method is slicker packaging. Hospitals have reorganized their services into neatly thematic departments devoted to problems ranging from impotence to sports injuries. In Philadelphia, where medical competition has grown intense, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital advertises special clinics to handle childbirth, eating disorders, sleeping problems, Alzheimer's disease and hearing loss. A print ad for Jefferson's bulimia program shows an attractive female model who says, "Eating ruled my life. I called Jefferson." The ad even provides a catchy toll-free number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hospitals Learn the Hard Sell | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

SCRIABIN: SYMPHONY NO. 1 (Angel). Visionary music, handsomely served by Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best of '86: Music | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...remembered, when she was remembered at all, as a bright, devout girl and the perennial class valedictorian. In 1946, when her family left war-torn Manila for the U.S., the 13-year-old Filipina with bobbed hair enrolled in the Ravenhill Academy, a Catholic girls' school in Philadelphia, and later in the Notre Dame Convent school in New York City. Cory's four college years passed with scarcely a trace at the College of Mount St. Vincent, a small Catholic women's college in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The self-contained student occasionally entertained her classmates with Filipino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...location, Santa Rosa National Park on Costa Rica's Pacific coast, is ideal for his favorite pursuits: rambling across abandoned pasture, collecting seeds and caterpillars, weighing and identifying trapped mice, netting insects by night -- work he calls "muddy-your-boots biology." Janzen, in fact, spends so little time in Philadelphia that he maintains no residence there. He prefers to sleep on a cot in his university office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Growing a Forest From Scratch | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

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