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...Harvard Din & Tonics celebrate their 20th anniversary this year, and more than 70 alumni returned to commemorate the occasion...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dins Celebrate Twentieth | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...Mexico I signed up for Spanish 101 so I could put in a few Spanish phrases, which I did, for the four Spanish sentences. I wanted Fatima to be African because I wanted to include a lot of the continents. So I took [a course on] 19th and 20th Century African history. I was also taking Anthropology 101 which was my forced science--nothing to do with the book--but it became almost the most important class in the book...Aisling is fascinated with evolving into something--what humans will become next. If we've come this far from fish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Escape on the Word Train | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...20th Century...

Author: By Brian R. Walsh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fly By | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...course, Kubrick did far more than make movies of slightly better quality than those that he saw at the MOMA. Though his filmography is limited (he made only eight movies after 1960), Kubrick's works stand out as some of the hallmarks of film-making in the late 20th century...

Author: By David Kornhaber, | Title: KUBRICK: A RETROSPECTIVE | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...became the forerunner of a modern air force when it was used as aerial spying tool for the French in 1794, heralded the coming of passenger air service with the subsequent development of blimps, and introduced mankind to space exploration with high-altitude scientific balloons. Now in the 20th century, ballooning is back in vogue as a full-fledged sport. As the records have fallen, from the crossing of the Atlantic to the crossing of the Pacific, only one real challenge remains: circumnavigating the globe. It is a challenge whose call to people like Piccard and Jones is a reminder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Air Over Cuba | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

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