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Although the bulk of the team is made up of sophomores and freshmen, the team faces a loss in leadership as its only senior, Stovell, graduates...

Author: By Patty W. Seo, | Title: Tennis: A Reversal of Expectations | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...staples in bulk when they're on sale. Not staple-gun staples -- staples! Like shaving cream and sweat socks. Consider a family that buys one bottle of wine each week. With the 10% discount many stores offer on wine by the case, they would be saving 10% every 12 weeks -- more than 40% a year, tax free and largely risk free. (One risk: that having so much wine around would lead to increased consumption. This is less a consideration with sweat socks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Where Else to Invest? | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

Most students interviewed acknowledge that the ART does provide resources that they might otherwise not have. The courses the professionals teach comprise a bulk of the dramatic arts curriculum currently offered...

Author: By Steven A. Engel and Melissa Lee, S | Title: Wherefore Art Thou, Drama Support Line? | 5/14/1993 | See Source »

...years ago, they would have had to cross the Bering land bridge many thousands of years earlier. That would have been no problem, but heading south from there would have been tough: ice sheets -- or the inhospitable terrain they left behind -- cut off virtually all access to the bulk of North America from Alaska between 20,000 and 14,000 years ago. Guidon's rather controversial answer: maybe the immigrants came over to South America in boats directly from Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to America | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

Most of all, Home Improvement straddles the gender fence with the skill of a Cirque du Soleil aerialist. Network entertainment is largely driven by the female audience. Hard-edged action shows have all but disappeared from prime time; the great bulk of TV movies focus on women protagonists with either an empowering story to tell or a rapist on their trail; and most sitcoms have a female orientation, even when they ostensibly revolve around men. (Watch Major Dad get tamed by the women in his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime-Time Power Trip | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

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