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Cooper also handles another popular item, the refillable candle. One fast seller is an $18 sculptured bird standing on wrought-iron feet. Everything burns but the feet. San Francisco's Candles to Burn features sand-cast candles in the form of owls and mushrooms that can be refilled when the candle inside has burned itself...
...trenchcoats dotting the steps of Widener Library? The chocolate, peach and lime the CRIMSON warned of? Or Playboy's poll: "Cliffies are Merit Scholars who are good in bed" (thank God! the best of both worlds!). How could we know, when we packed our suitcases, packed those Villager skirt sand shoes with matching pocketbooks, packed little dresses for the teas and sweat-shirts and jeans, how could we know that we were absolutely right, and absolutely wrong, about everything...
...University and the nation keep their heads stuck in the sand, stubbornly refusing to face the fact that America picked a fight with North Vietnam and proceeded to cause the deaths of one million people. And so the Class of '71 has become grateful for small favors: We adore the liberal Democrats who cast futile votes for the McGovern-Hatfield amendment. But can those votes make up for the fact that the liberal Democrats-by duplicity and stupidity-got us into the war in the first place? We praise the New York Times for attempting to publish the truth about...
...returned, half his busload had already assembled and were impatiently demanding passage back to Essex. But the Losers had also gotten the bus driver drunk and so, when Mr. Loser boarded the boat for another swing around the harbor, Mrs. Loser led the bus driver off to the nearby sand dunes, leaving one of the chauffeurs to entertain her half-stewed teenage daughter. Meanwhile, the rest of the group suffered in the sun, as unsilently as possible, while back at the Country Club they began to serve up the evening's promised lobster...
...last three billion years (the age of the youngest lunar rock) the only apparent changes on the moon have been caused by meteorites. Constant impacting by meteorites has broken up the rock to form dust, compacted the dust to form rocks called breccia, and melted the rock sand dust to form glasses...