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"It's a gamble," says SOLD: JDGL, who is Jim Lindsay, a retired physicist. His wife Jeanette, a retired schoolteacher, is reassuring: "It looks like a dogfight, but there is a lot of sharing too. People help each other." The Lindsays have been regulars for 20 years. The 12...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: High-Tech Junkyard | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

Five minutes after noon the scroungers have established territorial piles of gleanings. Inside a dumpster filled with old electronics (40? per lb.), three men are crawling around stripping out switches, relays and diodes. In the steel pile (7? per lb.), a swarm is hauling off a transformer cabinet, a 16...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: High-Tech Junkyard | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

Students seeking to become "evil prunes" and "pregnant nuns" for a night dragged themselves to the Hasty Pudding Halloween Costume Sale yesterday to shop through piles of costumes from the club's theatrical productions.

Author: By Katherine M. Peterson, | Title: Halloween Get-Ups on Sale at Pudding | 10/28/1983 | See Source »

Think, indeed. The only action one can take toward the past is to think about it. This may be the one way the past is ever changed, by the mind's reviewing all the historical laundry that blizzarded down in an undifferentiated heap when the past was taking place, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Really Mattered? Not just great events, but underlying causes | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

After 1915, Wright's rebirth in architecture took the form of creative audacity on a grand scale. Commissioned in 1916 to build the new Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, he produced one of the marvels of modern construction. A vast, low building on a symmetrical plan, it was Wright'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART 1938: Usonian Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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