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Cokane: "The love of money is indeed the root of all evil...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Engaging Production of Widower's Houses | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

...nearby islands of the South Pacific, by contrast, enterprising natives of the New Guinea highlands were clearing forests and using irrigation to cultivate yams, bananas and taro root. Coastal people were developing double-hulled ocean-going canoes and mastering the rudiments of navigation, which led to an explosion of interisland trade. The dominant traders, peoples known to archaeologists as the Lapita, who lived in the Bismarck archipelago, did a booming commerce in food, obsidian, seashells and elaborately stamped pottery from island to island, eventually venturing as far away as Fiji and Tonga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World in 3300 B.C. | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

Many guards say inadequate training and supervision may be at the root of the alleged incidents of harassment. Whether harassment occurred or not, tensions are high and morale is low in the guard division of the Harvard Police Department...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Training of the Guard | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...same woman for 22. He has scarcely missed a volleyball game of either daughter: Jennifer, 19, who is now studying acting in London; and Lindsay, 15. An exciting Saturday is when his good friends, director Rob Reiner and his wife, come over, or when he goes to root for Los Angeles' basketball underdogs, the Clippers. "For a star," says Reiner, who directed him in Harry, "he's the most normal man in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Struggled From Warm-Up Act to Headliner: BILLY CRYSTAL | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...lives hell now -- alcoholism or drug addiction, rape or murder, hatred or greed, power or war -- have all been caused by child abuse, which has been caused by the desire for material success. The child is traumatized, though he can't remember what happened to him. Evil is the root of child abuse and, if we stamp out child abuse, we'll be bringing God back, and that will cure everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Goals | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

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