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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...iconic image of information-age combat dates from the Gulf War: the view from a smart bomb, homing in on an Iraqi bunker. But the Serbian forces in Yugoslavia have fielded a far more powerful electronic arsenal than the Iraqis did, and American military technology has been evolving since that time as well. If it comes to a fight, it will be the most sophisticated display of electronic combat the world has ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Tech Hardware Ready for Deployment in Kosovo | 3/24/1999 | See Source »

...days of old, brave men and women roamed the countryside in search of wild beasts. They shot those beasts. But in this age of political correctness, the noble sport of big game hunting has come under heavy fire. Critics call it inhumane, a frivolous waste of life, an affront to the sacred majesty of the animal kingdom. We call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birds of Prey | 3/23/1999 | See Source »

...suicide rate of Harvard undergraduates is less than the statistical average for this age group, and Harvard students are far more sophisticated than the average college student in making use of counseling and other mental health services. We have what is probably the largest and most active mental health service of any university in this country, and it is fully utilized by all parts of the student population. Most of the time we work with individual students, helping them understand and cope with problems of relationships, careers and becoming individuals. We are also actively involved in working indirectly with peer...

Author: By Randolph Catlin, | Title: Confronting Suicide | 3/23/1999 | See Source »

...member of the Bellofatto family, I am responding to the eulogy for Sean Sellers written by Bianca Jagger [NOTEBOOK, Feb. 15]. [Jagger described Sellers' execution for murder, stating that he suffered from a mental disorder.] Before murdering his parents, Sellers at the age of 16 killed Robert Bowers, a convenience-store clerk who wouldn't sell him beer. Sellers later murdered his own mother Vonda Bellofatto and his stepfather Paul Lee Bellofatto in their sleep. It was not until after Sellers' final bid for appeal was turned down by the state of Oklahoma and his capital-punishment sentence became inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 22, 1999 | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

DIED. YEHUDI MENUHIN, 82, icon of 20th century music and world-renowned humanitarian; of heart failure; in Berlin. A few years after stunning a San Francisco audience at his first major concert at age 7, the prodigy went on to play at Carnegie Hall, where colleagues had to tune his violin for him because his fingers were too small. A New York-born Jew who lived in London, Menuhin was endlessly open-minded--he loved the Beatles and jammed with Ravi Shankar--and was consumed with using his music to promote world peace. Of his 75-year career, which included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 22, 1999 | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

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