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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news: T-20 has to be injected, not swallowed as a pill, which suggests the drug gets destroyed by the stomach. "That?s not going to be very convenient," warns Gorman. We?ll find out more in the next round of testing -- but don?t hold your breath for the cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another AIDS Breakthrough -- Maybe | 11/3/1998 | See Source »

...only rehearsed in my head, but it was as wonderful to hear lines from his new translation of Beowulf. His wry running commentary--that the genre demanded the heroic "Charlton Heston or Clint Eastwood bit" or that he pictured the monster Grendel as a sort of "reeking dog-breath in the dark"--helped to underscore that Heaney was coming at the old staple of high school English classes from a refreshing new angle...

Author: By Jia-rui Chong, | Title: Who Owns Beowulf? | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...renovations have also improved the heating and cooling systems, which were formerly centrally controlled and rather unresponsive to temperature changes. "Sometimes in the spring when the air conditioning was on, I used to teach while students wore coats--you could see their breath in the air!" Mueller recalls. The new, modern system is much easier to control and even provides teachers with thermostats for individual classrooms. Difficulties with this system, however, have persuaded university officials that classroom temperature control will soon be discontinued. Elizabeth Randall, project manager for the Boylston renovation, cites wide temperature fluxuations for prompting this step: "People...

Author: By Stephen G. Henry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Brand New Boylston | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...bohemian black, blaspheme her traditional upbringing and stay out all night drinking bourbon, but only because she thought she had to maintain her outer strength. Faiman's facade never cracked; her performance was seamless. She soliloquizes about smoking cigarettes--"like taking a drag off of death"--in the same breath that she makes banal and sarcastic remarks about the importance of one's liver. Faiman balances Meg's brilliantly contradictory nature, making her powerful and brash, loveable, intimate and understanding--a perfect foil to Kate Taylor's '01 portrayal of Babe Botrelle...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRIMES of the HEART | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...wanted a job back then, you go to him and you got a job," Raymond told me while leaning close enough so I could smell his breath. Pointing to where city hall stood, he attacked the current black mayor, Sharpe James: "All that guy James cares about is the suburbs and the rich folks...

Author: By Jason R. Stevenson, | Title: Conversations in Newark | 10/29/1998 | See Source »

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