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The author's formula has become too predictable, however, and Hot Money is especially welcome because it offers a variation. No steamer trunks this trip, though as usual there are a few "ers" in the mixture, for flavor. Only the locked room of the mind (and the odd explosion) vex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reverse Lear HOT MONEY | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

The full extent of Simmons' rampage became clear when authorities entered his home. There, amid unopened Christmas gifts, they found the bodies of one of Simmons' sons, a daughter, their spouses, and a grandchild. A shallow grave behind the house and the trunks of two junked cars contained the bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: A Holiday Killing Spree | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

Squirrels raid the chestnuts, chew the metal signs on the trunks, now and then attack the bark, but they are merely scolded with affection. Earlier this year a pair of mallards dropped in on the grounds and got amorous in the swimming pool. Then some wood ducks decided to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Eighteen Acres of Harmony | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Late last week a cordon of Montana State University police stepped aside as Gary Strobel, a professor of plant pathology, led a group of onlookers to a stand of 13 American elms in the Bozeman campus research grove. He took a chain saw and severed the trees six inches above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Montana State's Troublesome Elms | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

The two rooms that serve as the store are full to bursting with books. The logical expansion, the next room, is the bedroom Winifred shared with Bob. She has been sleeping there 31 years, and she cannot bear to give it up. So the business simply overflows all over the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Books on a Ranch | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

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