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Like crime nationwide, theft in Cambridgeport has decreased significantly in the '90s compared to the '80s. And those three categories all decreased by double-digit percentages last year compared...
...lost Details? In fairness, it was on the critical list before Golin. Under the editorship of James Truman--now editorial director of all Conde Nast magazines--Details enjoyed early-'90s acclaim as a stylish bible of the downtown club scene. But it floundered, changing editors like Polo boxer-briefs and redefining itself constantly, most recently as a pop-culture gazette with a dash of red-blooded...
...past, flamed-out cures for everything from cholera to cancer have burned those who dared put their money on a biotech dream. Just in case you forgot, or are too young to remember: there was a heart-fluttering, blood-clotting, joint-stiffening biotech bubble and bust in the early '90s, and Mr. Market has thoughtfully rewound the tape. The group's first decent rally in 10 years took shape last December. Biotechs bedazzled for three months, surging 175%--only to crumble over the past few weeks. A slew of "promising" companies are now worth half what they fetched...
...traffickers operating in the southern half of Colombia, which they control. (That must be a relief for Colombia's peasantry, of course, since it was the impoverished campesinos themselves who, along with assorted kidnap victims, had been the guerrillas' prime revenue source before the cocaine boom of the '90s...
...mended its ways and wants a relationship on new terms, for which it will be easier for Khatami to win acceptance. As will the tantalizing prospect of recovering billions of dollars and doing business with the world's most powerful economy. After all, Iran's economic decline in the '90s had persuaded even many conservatives that it was time to start doing business again with the West. Even, perhaps, with an apologetic "Great Satan...