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...first floor of Eliot House's H-entry flooded with sewage water last weekend when a six-inch drain line was blocked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drainpipe Clogs, Spewing Sewer Water Over Eliot-H | 1/13/1988 | See Source »

...therapy relieves SAD. Sufferers readily pay around $400 for a sun-box, a device containing several fluorescent light tubes that emit the full spectrum of natural light at five to ten times the intensity of indoor lighting. Says Hellekson: "The light you get is about equivalent to standing one inch away from a window on a sunny spring day." Because light seems to affect the body through the eyes and not the skin, tanning therapy doesn't work, Rosenthal points out. Some patients spend from 30 minutes to five hours daily soaking up the sun-box rays. For Dalene Barry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Dark Days, Darker Spirits | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...foreign policy, the Soviet Union has been checked: between 1974 and 1980, Communist forces gobbled up ten countries, from Viet Nam to Afghanistan. On our watch, they have not seized an inch more of territory, and Grenada returned to the fold of free nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Assessing Reagan | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

...long you been in this country? An inch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: And To All, A Merry Christmas | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

...Parkton, Md., nine stubby, stemless glasses, narrower at the top than at the bottom, are lined up. Behind them stand nine uncorked bottles of California red wine, their labels obscured by foil wraps. The critic rinses the glasses with wine from three of the bottles. Then he pours an inch or so of red liquid from the first bottle into the first glass and holds it up to the light. "Good color," he says, "but that's rarely a problem with California wines." He swirls the glass fiercely for a second or two and inhales. "Not much wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Man with a Paragon Palate | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

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