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...yuletide festive feeling has at last returned. At the Coop, there's as much Christmas decoration as merchandise. Included are 24 newly hand-painted banners representing Christmas themes, live fire-proofed poinsettia plants, wreaths, a huge outside Christmas tree, lights on the front of the store, and piped Christmas music outside the entrance to the store...

Author: By Stacie A. Lipp, | Title: It's Christmastime in the Square | 12/10/1985 | See Source »

...island were barren, if it had no majestic koa trees or coconut palms or fern forests, no hibiscus, begonia, bougainvillaea, poinsettia, u'ulei, mamane or hinahina blossoms, it would be worth visiting for Haleakala alone. It is among the world's largest dormant volcanoes-it has not erupted since 1790-and its brooding presence dominates Maui. The crater of 10,000-ft.-high Haleakala (pronounced Hah-lee-ah-kah-lah) is seven miles long, two miles across and half a mile deep. While it has almost no vegetation save for patches of glistening silversword, the crater is dotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Maui: America's Magic Isle | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...this year. With no seniors on the team, Columbia is 6-0 in Ivy League competition and is also ensconced in first place in the N.J.-N.Y. "7" after dispatching Rutgers, Manhattan, and Fordham. In addition, the Lions won their first tournament since 1967 by taking the Poinsettia Classic...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Big Hoop in the Big Apple | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...make people aware of the hazardous side of the nation's infatuation with horticulture. Last year at least 12,000 Americans were poisoned by plants, some of them fatally. Most of these cases stemmed not from rare, unfamiliar species, but from such garden-variety types as the poinsettia, holly, mistletoe, wisteria and even rhubarb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Deadly Garden | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

...POINSETTIA (leaves and stem): diarrhea, abdominal cramps and delirium. Sap can cause skin irritation and, if rubbed in the eyes, blindness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. Hartman's List of Lethal Foliage | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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