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...Percentage of U.S. homes that had a bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The TIME Centennial News Quiz | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...academic disciplines has finally implanted itself firmly in popular culture. The trend began in 1994 when Princeton University's Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem, a cantankerous problem that had defeated the best mathematical minds for more than 350 years. Not since Archimedes ran naked from his bathtub shouting "Eureka!" has a mathematician received more publicity. PEOPLE magazine put him on its list of "the 25 most intriguing people of the year," the Gap asked him to model jeans, and Barbara Walters chased him for an interview. "Who's Barbara Walters?" asked the bookish Wiles, who had somehow gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Sexy Is Chalk Dust? | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...think they were great intellectual ladies, but fun for sitting with in a bathtub and listening to a ball game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jonathan Winters | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...seniors in Eliot House, we were unable to choose Eliot, a house with no bathtubs, only showers. We applaud Mr. Krefetz's willingness to open the bathtub in his suite to use by students in houses that do not provide them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

This open-bathtub policy should be instituted at the highest levels of power as a general Harvard policy. Perhaps individual residents of suites with bathtubs could be allowed to reserve certain popular times, such as 9 to 10 in the morning, for use only by residents of the suites. However, outside of those times, their selfishness and arrogance should be curtailed. Residents of bathtubless houses should be able to use anyone's bathtub (even if it is already overcrowded at the time), any time, night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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