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...first-year student again--the scum at the bottom of the academic pond...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Separate And Unequal Academies | 9/22/1990 | See Source »

...frog, small pond; an even smaller pond today, with fewer than 400 residents. I look around for the train station, but it's not there. No tracks, either; they were ripped up "Oh, quite a few years ago now." A big prosperous food-canning factory that my grandfather and some other townsmen started in the '20s petered out, I learn, in the early '70s. A steel- fabricating plant operated there for a few years, then went belly up, and now a toxic-waste cleanup putters along in a clutter of rusted metal. Ellsworth Lake is still where it was when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ellsworth, Michigan Going Home: Roots, but No Tracks | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...Tiffany's plummy palate, iridescent surfaces and flowing shapes are attracting record museum throngs and stratospheric auction prices. "Masterworks" was the most popular exhibit ever at the Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery in Washington; some 225,000 people visited it during its five-month stay. At Christie's a pond- lily glass table lamp brought $550,000, a record auction price for a Tiffany work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Windows on A Nouveau World | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...least for the moment, they've decided to fish in the tuition pond. If they don't catch anything there, they might go back and send another CID about financial aid," he said...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Schools Wonder if Inquiry Is Changing Focus | 5/25/1990 | See Source »

...movement of the '60s was relatively elite and focused on national lawmaking," says former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt. "Today the power is being regenerated through the grass roots. Just as the civil rights movement began at the neighborhood lunch counter, this new environmental movement is beginning at the neighborhood pond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Earth Day Greening From the Roots Up | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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