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The Book Case was one of the world's few perfect bookshops. Customers descended into a cozy maze of stacks and squeezed past the piles of books that cluttered the floor. The owners were friendly and the selection unbelievable. Generations of students fought Coop hegemony by buying their books at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Change | 3/3/1993 | See Source »

Camp Hell is the most notorious encampment. About 150 people live there, sleeping in battered trucks, under leaky plastic tarps, in tents pitched by piles of gelatinous garbage and broken beer bottles. The men wash in a , contaminated canal nearby, some lathering up naked by the roadside. Police found a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roofers From Hell | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

"When you're a small child, you look up at snow mounds. When you're an adult you look down on the same piles," he says. "People have been saying [the winters have been getting milder] since Jefferson. If that were really true, then we wouldn't have snow anymore...

Author: By David P. Bardeen, | Title: Where Has The Snow Gone? | 1/27/1993 | See Source »

What is it in the stars that piles one tragedy on another? Perhaps what is happening to Bush now is his ultimate test, and his response will be his final statement in his stewardship. It is fascinating how these men who climb to the heights of power almost always at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Tidings of Sadness and Loss | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

Caravaggio was the first Italian painter to make still life an independent subject, and Ribera follows him. The still-life details of his paintings, the luscious precise fruit bowls and the piles of books whose every parchment page is given its own stiffness and weight -- even the yellowed skulls that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Baroque Futurist | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

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