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...make in the next week have similar consequences for your upcoming semester. The four or five numbers you list on your study card will color everything, both academic and otherwise, that you do for the next 17 weeks. Yet a surprising number of students approach shopping period with reckless abandon. Like the unwitting partisan who overlooks the gravity of redistricting, these students risk a torturous sentence to a hell of their own making. Hence, a systematic approach to shopping period is needed...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: A Message From Your Personal Shopper | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...cable system that will provide electricity to Spektr and the rest of the power-thirsty station. "This is a super day," exulted NASA astronaut Michael Foale, who waited out the space walk inside Mir's Soyuz re-entry vehicle, the crew's lifeboat in case they had to abandon ship. "Well done, everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PATCHING UP THE SHIP | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...saying we have to abandon our species' well-known sense of humor and go around shouting Hallelujah! at every rock Sojourner stumbled on. In the end, in the spirit of science, we want those rocks to become as familiar and even banal to us as the ones we run into with our lawn mowers. If all goes well, our grandchildren will encounter the floodplains of Mars in a third-grade geography lesson, and maybe even find them a little dull. But cuteness short-circuits the whole process of learning and discovery. When we turn the Martian terrain into a comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT A CUTE UNIVERSE YOU HAVE! | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...first humanities department to abandon a thesis as mandatory for honors, the English department's decision followed a similar move by the economics department last year...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Zuckerman, | Title: English Dept. to Allow Non-Thesis Cum Laude | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

...seem to get the promotion she deserves or the man she wants. The reason for both of these frustrations is one and the same, and seemingly beyond her powers of control: her boss won't promote her unless she's tied down, financially and maritally, for fear she might abandon ship. And the man of her choice, fellow advertiser Sam (Kevin Bacon), only goes for forbidden fruit--women who are already spoken...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Not Exactly Picture Perfect | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

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