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...Street in small town after small town. For two months our journalists have been roaming up and down those Main Streets, taking the pulse of America. And over the course of nearly three weeks, 20 TIME reporters and photographers will wrap up that effort with a 3,100-mile trek over the full length of the road, crossing 16 states and winding up, on May 21, in San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: May 19, 1997 | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

Although River dwellers must continue to trek up to 20 minutes to their dining halls for lunch, Acting Director of Transportation Services Robert Martino emphasized that the decisions made by the operating committee were not final...

Author: By Michael M. Rosen, | Title: Shuttles to Run Later, But Not to River | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

...this case, she must either trek to the nearest properly equipped location or to a nearby store to get change, or she must find that sympathetic friend who waits by the copier to save...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: Copy Kat | 4/29/1997 | See Source »

...workers on the New York State Senate campaign I worked on last summer teased me about my passion for ice cream. There was a Baskin-Robbins a good 10 minute walk away, and every day I made the trek. Some days I bought frozen yogurt, other days ice cream sundaes; I even sampled all the variations of the 'Blast' drink series. I knew all of the flavors in the store. By the end of my stint working for this campaign, I became convinced that I ought to work at Baskin-Robbins, since I could better advise customers on selections than...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: The Eighth Wonder of the World | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

Time accompanies its seven-page coverage of DeGeneres with an interesting sidebar depicting other such momentous occasions. Listed there are television's first inter-racial kiss (courtesy of "Star Trek" in 1968), the first character to have an abortion (the title character of "Maude" in 1972) and the now infamous decision of Murphy Brown to bear a child out of wedlock. The banner headline reads, "Ellen is far from the first TV series to take on a controversial social issue...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Coming Out to Applause | 4/25/1997 | See Source »

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