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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty years ago, it was a patch of forest outside Olympia, Wash. Today it is the site of Evergreen State College, a newly thriving liberal arts institution that last year was mentioned in a U.S. News & World Report survey of university and college presidents as one of the nation's better schools. Evergreen is one of a set of ambitious schools that in the past half a dozen years have emerged from academe's boondocks or thereabouts to reach for national recognition. All the institutions in the sampler below, along with a growing corps of like-minded schools, have risen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Those Hot Colleges on the Climb | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...Cinnamon Sam's rolls remain soft an hour or two longer without reheating, although they have no more flavor than others tried in Kansas City. Nevertheless, the buns have a huge following. "Cinnamon rolls are ageless," observes Rich Favaro, founder of Cinnabon in the SeaTac Mall in Federal Way, Wash. "Their appeal crosses all demographics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Sweet Smell of Success | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...better, at least for now, simply to lie in Fenway and let the infinite hopes and memories of endless summer days wash over...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Soaking Up Some Timeless Fen-Rays | 4/15/1986 | See Source »

...country last week offered cash prizes to the service-station operator who "bid" to sell his product at the lowest price. In Milwaukee, the Park Plaza Mobil station sold off 8,000 gal. of regular unleaded at 36.9 cents per gal. In Concord, Calif., the Sun Valley Auto Wash, a Chevron station, offered gasoline for .1 cents per gal., while in Diamond Bar, Calif., George Benitez's Shell service station went one better by offering for one day up to 30 gal. of regular leaded per customer at .00l cents per gal. Then, overwhelmed by the task of making change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Money in Most Pockets | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

With no magic bullet to shoot them through the heart, the city burned the modern heretics at the stake. The water washed the city's hands. As Ramona said to the judge at her trial, "The whole city of Philadelphia is trying to wash the blood of Move people off their hands and they're using you as the water...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: Goode's Jury | 4/12/1986 | See Source »

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