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James F. Klocke, the director of government affairs for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and his colleagues use Route 128 to illustrate the importance of research...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rudenstine goes to bat in Washington to save funding | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

Hata knows better. He is a Japanese of Korean descent who is used to working hard for acceptance. Yet no one, not even his adopted Korean-born daughter Sunny, knows, or much cares to know, the man behind the Chamber of Commerce smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Absence of Comfort | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

Next came Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which proved itself, both in Britain and the U.S., as salesworthy as its predecessor. So far, the first two Harry Potter books have sold almost 2 million copies in Britain and more than 5 million in the U.S. The novels have been translated into 28 languages, including Icelandic and Serbo-Croatian. The best-seller chart in last Sunday's New York Times Book Review ranks The Sorcerer's Stone, in its 38th week on the list, as the No. 1-selling hardback novel and The Chamber of Secrets, in its 13th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild About Harry Potter | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...lead what he calls the largest expedition ever undertaken in Egypt--and deservedly so. The richness of the find and the tombs' unprecedented state of preservation have astounded archaeologists, some of whom have compared it to the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922. Even Tut's burial chamber had been partly looted, however. These tombs appear to have remained undisturbed since they were sealed some 2,000 years ago--more than 1,300 years after Tut, at a time when Egypt and much of the Middle East was part of the Roman Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Valley Of The Lost Tombs | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...resistant to the most common types of antibiotics. So what can doctors do? For starters, they can stop prescribing so many antibiotics - it only accelerates the development of supergerms. Already, hospitals are trying to hold back on the use of vancomycin, the last antibiotic silver bullet left in the chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Outbreak Fuels Fears About Antibiotics | 8/20/1999 | See Source »

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