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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...important to remember that the effect of name-dropping Harvard, affectionately referred to as "dropping the H-bomb," largely depends on the composition of your audience. Among a group of Yalies, for example, it will probably stir only competitive comments along the lines of "Oh, yeah? well, New Haven is just as nice as Cambridge," your response: sure, whatever...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: On the Town | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

...North Wales, Pa., nurse and mother of two. Four close relatives, including her mother and grandmother, had died of breast cancer at an early age. Wilson herself had a history of benign lumps in her breast. She was, her doctor once bluntly told her, "a walking time bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware This Breakthrough! | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...Mexico has been ready for business, but legal challenges and bureaucratic rigmarole have prevented the WIPP site (for Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) from opening. Now, with the EPA about to bestow its blessing, the DOE is gearing up to begin receiving plutonium refuse from the nation's mothballed bomb factories. With activists vowing legal action, that's no sure thing. Though officials insist that concerns about everything from fractures to flooding have been addressed, opponents still question the safety of shipping millions of pounds of radioactive waste along the interstates on flatbed trucks. "There are going to be accidents," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: New Mexico Prepares For Some Hot Waste | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...friendship of Nina and George. (They go to amusement parks. They watch videos together in makeshift slumber parties. And, yes, they go dancing.) The complication, of course, is Nina's boyfriend, Vince (John Pankow), an outspoken civil liberties lawyer who naturally resents George's intrusion. Tension builds until the bomb explodes: Nina announces her pregnancy and her desire to raise the baby with George instead of Vince...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Highlighting Stereotypes is Not Funny | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

According to Christopher R. Coyne '99, the teameven applied for a Undergraduate Council grant for$16,000 to purchase a nuclear Nerf bomb. Theirapplication was denied. Yet the team is confidentthat, despite the fiscal set-back, at the end ofthe day they will reign victorious...

Author: By Linnea E. Housewright, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Natural Born Killers Stalk Quincy House in Do-or-Die Game | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

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