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...Freeze-drying human bodies, however, would be an expensive proposition -- about $15,000 to $18,000 apiece. Since there is no law in Florida against freeze-drying humans, however, all it would take for such a perpetual viewing chapel to take root, so to speak, would be a mortuary license, a corpse, someone living willing to shell out $15,000 to $18,000, and, of course, one of the machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pinellas Park, Florida. Freeze-Dried Memories: Pets | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

...unbelievable match," Nichols said. "Overall it was a fantastic weekend. It was really fun. The only bummer was that we all played at the same time--so we couldn't root our teammates on--unless you whipped or got whipped by your opponent really quickly...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: W. Squash Places 2nd in Howe Cup Tourney; Princeton Wins | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

Verba has written extensively on social, political and economic equality. Equality in America: The View from the Top, which Verba co-authored in 1985, analyzes how the inequalities inevitably arising from capitalism can be reconciled with the equality which must be the root of democracy...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Forging Faculty Consensus | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

...mother, Zachary says, Hope has always tried to impart egalitarianism and concern about social issues to her son. "In bringing me up, she always tried to root out any kind of complacency, and she never permitted arrogance or elitism," he says...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: 'Mom' Was Always a Trailblazer | 2/11/1989 | See Source »

...walking through Harvard Square two nights ago when a man with a sign informed me that fascism had come to America. Fearing the worst--that, as his sign proclaimed, Nazism had taken root in our country--I went over to him and took the reading material he was handing to passersby...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Clouding the Abortion Issue | 2/4/1989 | See Source »

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