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A deeper reason for the steady decline of idyls, though, may be that travelers love to report that paradise is lost. If it is the first secret conceit of every voyager to imagine that he alone has found the world's last paradise, it is the second to believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: How Paradise Is Lost - and Found | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

Bui says, however, that because the friends group is so heavily endowed, Radcliffe is the only college in the nation which can afford a separate women's lightweight team. "We're so completely spoiled compared to other college programs," she says.

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: Wealthy Alums Give Crew a Cut | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

The set could be called minimalist or slipshod, depending on your distance from theater lingo. There's a blue curtain backdrop that came Federal Express through the local time warp from an elementary school somewhere in your past; there's a yellow bench with paint drippings down the side; and...

Author: By Peter C. Krause, | Title: Baby Peanuts | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

Freshman Hank Parichabutr moved up from his usual JV status to combine with Peter Palandjian at third doubles, Robson and John Kim spoiled Parichabutr's Ivy debut in a close three-set match.

Author: By Steve Li, | Title: Harvard Netsters Bully Yale by Twin 6-3 Counts | 4/26/1986 | See Source »

The oil bust has spoiled the economics of alternative energy sources as well. Many of the ballyhooed 1970s-era programs to extract petroleum from oil shale and tar sands have been mothballed because they cost too much to operate. The hundreds of mom-and-pop solar-power companies that sprang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheap Oil! | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

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