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Members of the Harvard history department said the results were not particularly shocking nor should they cause alarm...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Seniors Flunk U.S. History 101, Recent Study Shows | 7/7/2000 | See Source »

...spot, Wall Street has some "digesting" to do. The early book is that these numbers, while not incredibly reassuring to those rooting for the Fed to stand pat in August (and that's pretty much everybody, Wall Street or Main Street), don't seem particularly likely to alarm Alan Greenspan much either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh-So-Coy Job Stats Set to Put Markets in a Tizzy | 7/7/2000 | See Source »

...true clique in the making from the moment we made our sweaty post-FOP introductions, my first-year roommates determined that we would exist as a pack. The four of us synchronized our alarm clocks. Our Annenberg schedule was timed so we would never have a solo meal...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On a New Campus, Adventures in Babysitting | 6/23/2000 | See Source »

...laws of physics may have their final revenge. Transistor components are fast approaching the dreaded point-one limit--when the width of transistor components reaches .1 microns and their insulating layers are only a few atoms thick. Last year Intel engineer Paul Packan publicly sounded the alarm in Science magazine, warning that Moore's law could collapse. He wrote, "There are currently no known solutions to these problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Replace Silicon? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...favorite) "squishings" increasingly dominate many of the movies we let our kids watch, leading to the inevitable--an earnest Harvard study. Normally, I'd rather have the Roadrunner drop an anvil on my head than endure another research paper on violence permeating the media--especially one that views with alarm Tigger's playful bowling over of Winnie the Pooh. But as I read the Harvard report, I found that it offers a useful reminder: many popular animated videos contain violence that shouldn't be emulated and scary scenes that young viewers need to have explained to them by adults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Violent Cartoons | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

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