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Dates: during 2000-2009
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With the odds thus stacked against me, I couldn't help being concerned. What does it mean when I'm introduced to three people as I enter a party and find that all their names have flown out of my head before I even reach the bean dip? What does it mean if I walk into a room on an errand of some kind and discover that I can't remember if I came in for a dictionary, a soup spoon or a socket wrench? After a certain age, does everyone's cranial zip disc start to fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Improve It: The Battle To Save Your Memory | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...said, arcane. But then again, the whole arms race with the Soviets had a distinctly academic, almost unworldly quality. It was really a form of bean counting. Like money to billionaires, it had little intrinsic meaning: it was just a way of keeping score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Arms Control | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...list of senior tutors is now pinned directly above Burr's desk and he notes that he was assigned a specific liaison with the Freshman Dean's Office, Assistant Dean Philip A. Bean...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hard Choices | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...BLOWS Last week researchers reported that coffee might help prevent Parkinson's disease. So is the caffeine bean good for you or not? Over the years, studies haven't exactly been clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coffee Chronicles | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...inevitable bailout of the fund a generation or two from now, costing even more money. The second is the huge administrative costs inherent in making the transition from one huge fund to millions of little ones. Bush won't price it, saying it's a negotiable subject for congressional bean counters, but Gore happily puts the tab at $900 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush, Gore and Social Security | 5/17/2000 | See Source »

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