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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...answers, please let us know - there are a lot of Americans who are trying to adjust to a metamorphosed world, finding it difficult to fit ideas of life before to the reality of life after. How far does normal life bend, anyway, before it breaks into unrecognizable pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shockwaves: America Picks Up the Pieces | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

...Minutemen would confirm what many on the team have believed for two seasonsthat the Crimson has what it takes to compete for the Eastern Championships and an NCAA berth. But even as the team continues to improve, Floerchinger expects the Minutemen-and the rest of Harvards local competition-to adjust...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Water Polo Aims for Second Shot at UMass | 9/19/2001 | See Source »

...suggests. A correction in the stock market is but one of many kinds of corrections, or attempts at them, in the book. We can try to fix situations in our own lives, but a correction can also be produced seemingly naturally. A system that is unbalanced or skewed will adjust itself. Can the life of a person or a family make corrections on its own? Gary envisions his life as a correction to his father’s. Before Denise is born, Alfred realizes that it’s not too late to make things better with the third child...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Personal 'Corrections' | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...flit unblinkingly to the safest haven around, no tears shed and no patriotism considered. And if New York City, dangling nakedly into the ocean, its gateway toppled, doesn?t seem the stronghold it once did, the investing hordes may just start to shop around for a new one, and adjust the balance of world economic power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New World Economic Order? | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...keep a monkey healthy even after he?s injected with dangerous levels of HIV. But on the other hand, we?re not talking about something that?s immediately transferable to humans." There?s also the issue of mutation, he adds. The virus is infamous for its ability to adjust to any attack, to alter its shape or defenses in order to escape detection or destruction from vaccines and treatments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope for an AIDS Vaccine: Nearly Two Years Later, Thankfully, Still Waiting for Godot | 9/6/2001 | See Source »

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