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...bins (for which the Government pays him 26.5? per bu. each year). Robert W. Thomas has put more than 20,000 acres of northern Colorado rangeland under the plow since 1979 and claims to have made at least $1 million on the recent sale of a 9,480-acre tract of prairie land that he planted in wheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carving Out a New Dust Bowl | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...proverb has it, the more things change, the more they are the same. Even up here, my health is precarious: as I used to write you in clinical detail during my years of childhood, adolescence and maturity, I suffer from hay fever, chills, diseases of the urinary tract and bowels, insomnia and aches of the joints. Perhaps disease is what guards my moral sense. As I wrote in Remembrance of Things Past, "Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; we obey pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obeying Pain | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...County?to pull Angelenos out into the boondocks, where there is still room to grow and grow. Enzer is dubious: "How is anybody from Watts going to get to a job in Riverside if it opens up there?" Already, though, up north in an arid nowhere, a new, generic tract has sprung up: the development is called Le House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: The New Ellis Island | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

Differing only in the number of housing untis they require, the plants create zoning guidelines for buildings on a 100-acre vacant tract located in the southern sector of the city between MIT and the Charles River. The plot covers much of the Cambridgeport neighborhood...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: Planning Board to Review Cambridgeport Proposals | 5/10/1983 | See Source »

...area has not been rezoned since the 1950s and the current regulations allow for no city control over the type of developments built on the property. Several city councilors and community groups have been struggling to design new zoning for the tract since MIT--which owns about one-half of the Cambridgeport land--announced last year that it was preparing to choose a developer for 27 of its acres...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: Planning Board to Review Cambridgeport Proposals | 5/10/1983 | See Source »

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