Word: sage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title story, a dreamy old sage steps out of his time machine with a typically Bradburian message: Utopia lies a century ahead. In fact, the traveler has never ventured farther than his laboratory. He fakes his trips in order to provide the earth with its most precious commodity: hope...
...becoming more adventurous in their tastes. Last year 6 million households spent $46 million growing herbs, in contrast with 5 million spending $39 million the year before. Some make tea from them, some bathe in them, some swear to their healing powers. Having mastered the basic basil, rosemary and sage, gardeners move on to lovage stems, bee-balm blossoms and lemon grass. The health conscious prize herbs as a salt substitute, while the cost conscious find that pricey, herb-flavored vinegars and oils are easily made at home...
...came with the honor has enabled Randi to step up his travels. He has logged 45,000 miles in the past few months alone, traveling far from his home in Plantation, Fla. In March he was in Australia, demonstrating the fraudulence of channeling, which involves a supposedly long- dead sage uttering words of wisdom through the mouth of a modern-day proxy. April found him in China, invited by a science journal to help stem what the editor called "growing confusion between science and superstition." In San Francisco and Des Moines, Dallas and New York City, Randi spoke...
...time when the capital is savagely partisan and gleefully destructive, a perambulating target as juicy as Meese just may not survive. Nor should he. He would do well to leave for his own best interests. "Part of the responsibility of a political man," says the political sage Richard Scammon, "is to take his lumps, whether he deserves them or not. He may be pure as the driven snow and his enemies totally unfair. But who ever said that fairness was a part of this game...
...editor, good friend and sage Jonathan Putnam pulled me aside, though, and showed me something he had written in his final article about the '84-'85 team...