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So many wild campers have sprouted around Saint-Tropez that authorities have opened up campsites that formerly were closed because of lack of toilets and running water. Even that has not been enough. "You can't believe what a day is like here," says a young gendarme at nearby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Heliomania on the Med | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

Some months ago, Skora began to fear that Arok was lonely. So now the inventor is staying up nights in his garage, amid piles of eviscerated household appliances, working on a companion masterpiece: an even better robot. Skora says Arok's new sibling will do everything Arok can, plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: A Better Robot? | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

In central Maine, people were fighting a different kind of insect infestation. For years poultry farmers in the area encouraged the proliferation of lesser mealworm beetles in manure pits, mistakenly believing they would hasten the chemical breakdown of the wastes into fertilizer. The tiny black creatures have thrived on partly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Grasshopper Invasion | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

Once aboard, many of the America's passengers settled down for a leisurely voyage, but some soon began complaining that their cabins were half-painted, had no beds or showers and were inhabited by roaches. Some toilets were clogged, while others would not stop running. One of the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Voyage of the Damned | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

With Megan, we set out on horseback through the winds of February and March, because he felt we should see the people dying. What we saw, I now no longer believe-except that my scribbled notes insist I saw what I saw. There were the bodies: the first, no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: In Search of History | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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