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If I play my miles right, in fact, I need never leave the plane. As soon as I embark, I can buy things -- key chains, duty-free perfumes, souvenirs and razors -- and put them on my credit card. Then I can acquire more goods on the Airfone, charged to my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miles to Go Before I Sleep | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

Of course, the staff evidently doesn't feel that it needs those extra two weeks to get the work done that was put off during the semester. Thus, they want Harvard to force students to acquire the self-discipline to cram in their activities, a little fun and the end...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Keep the Current Calendar | 2/5/1994 | See Source »

The museum combines dispassionate nineteenth-century taxonomy and wondrous admiration of the animals featured. Founded by Louis Agassiz in 1859 at the height of the craze to classify all of nature, the museum set out to acquire a specimen of everything in the natural world. The result is an incredible...

Author: By Deborah Wexler, VISITING THE MUSEUMS | Title: Lions and Tigers and Trilobites, Oh My! | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

It is Day 121 in the struggle between Sumner Redstone's Viacom and Barry Diller's QVC to acquire Paramount. The winner in this fight will almost certainly be a loser because the winner will overpay. Overpaying is a major symptom of show-business fever. Whatever the wishful rationalization of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectator the Agony of Victory | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

America is negotiating with deadly seriousness. President Clinton has vowed, publicly and unequivocally, that the U.S. will not allow the North Koreans to acquire atomic weapons. Whether they do or do not already have them profoundly affects how the U.S. and all of North Korea's neighbors can and should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Game of Nuclear Roulette | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

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