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...advantage, the Crimson managed some of its highest-quality scoring chances of the day, but to no avail against Ferguson...

Author: By David R. De remer and Nicolas O. Jimenez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: W. Hockey Earns NCAA Berth After Advancing to ECAC Final | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...figured that when I was done, I could just copy it into the Vista using the cable and synching software that came with it. I figured wrong. Plagued with error messages, I pored over the useless manual and misleading online troubleshooting suggestions on the Royal website--to no avail. Not until I got a replacement unit and downloaded a new file online was I able to get the thing to work right. Even then, the Vista had so many quirks and bugs--names would get truncated, strange error messages would pop up--that I was ready to toss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PDAs on a Diet | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

Junior goaltender Matt Underhill was taken out of the game during the last 48 seconds after making 37 saves in the hopes of tying the game, but to no avail. Cornell goes up against Rensselaer and Union at home this weekend...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Around the ECAC: Men's Hockey Clinches Home Ice | 2/27/2001 | See Source »

...help farmers produce genetically improved sheep," notes ethicist Erik Parens of the Hastings Center in New York state. "And surely that's how the technology will go with us too." Cloning, Parens says, "is not simply this isolated technique out there that a few deluded folks are going to avail themselves of, whether they think it is a key to immortality or a way to bring someone back from the dead. It's part of a much bigger project. Essentially the big-picture question is, To what extent do we want to go down the path of using reproductive technologies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby, It's You! and You, and You... | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...been engaged in protracted low-intensity combat to bring the conflict to final victory. Washington has unloosed a raft of modern weapons--economic sanctions, an arms embargo, weapons inspections, money for opposition groups, no-fly zones and the occasional bombing--to unseat Saddam Hussein. To no avail. The vexing enemy left in position in 1991 by the first President Bush has managed ever since to keep the Iraqi threat alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush vs. Saddam The Sequel | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

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