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...Terrace lots. Approximately 130 undergraduates pay $315 to park at the Business School, says Jeffrey L. Smith of the Harvard Parking Office. Another 30 students park at Soldiers Field and Peabody Terrace, which costs $65 a month for covered parking spaces and $50 a month for spots on the roof, Smith says...

Author: By Thomas R. Ellis, | Title: The Tougher Side of Owning a Car in Cambridge | 5/22/1987 | See Source »

...leaders," he said, reading from notes he had scribbled in the predawn hours. It "reduces the press of this nation to hunters and presidential candidates to being hunted, that has reporters in bushes, false and inaccurate stories printed, photographers peeking in our windows, swarms of helicopters hovering over our roof, and my very strong wife close to tears because she can't even get in her own house at night without being harassed. And then after all that, ponderous pundits wonder in mock seriousness why some of the best people in this country choose not to run for high office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall from Grace | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...possible in order to gain ground, feels like the end of the world. In any event, the wind doesn't "sing" through the Aleppo pines in these parts so much as it tries to uproot them (the hardest evidence of its vigor is on the barn's tin roof; but for the weight of a slew of dead tires, nature would snatch away that galvanized hat). Violets grow in the yard year-round and tulips in spring. Off in one direction the Whetstone Mountains glower; in another, the Empire Mountains; in another, the Huachucas; in another, the Dragoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Books on a Ranch | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...that if given a proper format could define dance in a new way." Now his privations really began, and he records them with deep feeling and baleful gusto. Home was usually a wretched flat, cold water or no water. One chapter starts off with "snow sifting gently through the roof." In extremis he ate dog food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Among Marvelous Ants and Bees PRIVATE DOMAIN | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...California's Monterey County in 1986 when its closely held plans to test the microbes in that area were uncovered by a local newspaper. While that issue was being debated, Rifkin revealed that AGS scientists had already injected mutant bacteria into fruit and nut trees growing on the roof of their Oakland labs -- a violation of federal and state regulations. AGS was fined $13,000 for its transgression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Tubers, Berries and Bugs | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

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