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...request. The average bill for two, including tip: $100. Why are so many prepared to pay so much for the thrill of eating in their own homes? "People want convenience," says Jack Kellman of Chicago, who last year launched a company called Room Service Delivery. "There's no baby sitter, no parking and no coat check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: A Dashing Way to Dine | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...also took to the trees in Oregon, Montana and Colorado. Two protesters in Washington's Colville National Forest who had clambered up into adjoining Douglas fir trees were surprised when the loggers they planned to confront never showed up. Their "occupation" was cut short after 48 hours, but tree-sitter Tim Coleman vowed to "take to the trees again if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Showdown in The Treetops | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...cold blood," says producer Anne de Boismilon. "You can never feel fear coming from her." Others, however, grew impatient with her for endlessly tinkering with stories. "She could drive a producer crazy fixing, then fixing again and again," says one source. "What she needed was a baby-sitter to tell her to get on with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Star Power: Diane Sawyer | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

Barbara has been most influential on issues that concern her deeply or where her husband is behind the curve, like AIDS, the homeless, civil rights and education. In the late 1950s, she battled segregationist innkeepers who refused to let the family's black baby-sitter stay with them in the same hotel. She was instrumental in the appointment of the only black in Bush's Cabinet, Dr. Louis Sullivan, whom she came to know from her work at Morehouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silver Fox | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...Sheehan later discovered was that Vann suffered from a sexual compulsion that led him to seduce hundreds of young women. His career was permanently stained even before he arrived in Viet Nam when he narrowly averted being court-martialed for the statutory rape of a 15-year-old baby- sitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Flawed Hero in a Flawed War | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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