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...stringers and freelancers who are able to pick up some of the slack. But that's about it. The stories average about two sentences. Unable to pretend to be a full-fledged wire service, the agency is moving to provide what might be called news fragments. A more apt name might be in order: blurb, maybe. Or blip. UPI now supplies headlines to a San Francisco paging company which displays headlines on pager screens and to a Kentucky outfit that is looking to flash headlines on LED screens in bars...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Where Old News Goes to Die | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...thing for a family of five locked inside a speeding vehicle (for the record, always within posted state limits). And like most families, we are a diverse group. Our eldest, Emily, is blissfully inclined toward reading, crafting and almost any do-it-yourself project. Six-year-old Zack is apt to need outward stimulation--like playing arena football in the car. And Abby, our toddler in tow, is still of an age when keeping the eyes busy and the stomach full is the best you can reasonably hope for when sleep won't come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Travel: The Easy Riders | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...Ariz., and MoCA Denver moved to a 10,000-sq.-ft. permanent home. Cincinnati recently announced that the dynamic female architect Zaha Hadid would design its contemporary arts center. And just last month the biggest of them all, Mass MoCA, opened in North Adams, Mass. Its name is doubly apt: housed in an abandoned factory that covers 13 acres (or about a third of the formerly industrial town), the museum has 19 commodious galleries. It's huge. In fact, it has so much space that it raises money by renting out some of its 27 buildings to commercial tenants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Going For Mass Appeal | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Equal' education may in fact create inequality of women because of the inherent differences in the life styles of men and women. No matter how optimistic a woman student...may be, her life pattern is apt to include 10 to 20 years...rearing a family," read a preliminary statement issued by the Committee on Recommendations to the President...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Radcliffe Reversal | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Clearly, the ball is now in Rudenstine and the University's court. In an April 9 Op-Ed in The Crimson, Fineberg explained that because of the complexity of the issue at hand, the University's decision "will not be simple and [is] not apt to be quick." Perhaps now that so many faculty members have joined the cause, the University will be moved to act a little more quickly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jumping on the Wagon | 5/19/1999 | See Source »

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