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Only two months after the eruption, small green parsley ferns and skunk cabbage were found pushing through the volcanic ash in sheltered areas along a creek on the mountain slope. Now the pink flowers of fireweed, a low-growing bush that is traditionally one of the first plants to colonize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Slowly, the Wounds Begin to Heal | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

Most regrettable is the casting of Nora Seton as Nora, who looks and sounds remarkably like Shirley Temple. When, early in the play, she twitters to her husband. "You're gonna be making a BIG salary and LOTS of money," one expects her, at any minute, to burst into a...

Author: By Jacob V. Lamar, | Title: Child's Play | 4/22/1981 | See Source »

Despite the History Department's mystifying attitude on this issue, the cause is not lost. Ozment says that the revision will not be officially approved until reading lists for the topics are compiled. In the meantime, tutors and students should be as strident as possible in opposing the changes, and...

Author: By William F. Hammond, | Title: Constructing Historical Walls | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

The net cost to the Government would be roughly $40 billion for one year, vs. some $54 billion initially under Reagan's plan. Besides that, Rostenkowski claimed that his plan would do more than Reagan's to stimulate the savings and investment that the economy needs if it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Budget Counterpunch | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Presumably, too, the quiet if not quite unremarkable quality of her early life, the absence of anything but a merely chronological past, brings her even closer to the royal ideal. She is only what she will become. Born to wealth and privilege, Diana Spencer, like the man she will marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Queen for a New Day | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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