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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...During fashion week in New York City, 15 male and female models from the Boss agency, which has declared itself "fur free," are planning to create a living PETA billboard. The models (including Calvin Klein poster boys MARCUS SCHENKENBERG, third from left, and JOEL WEST, fourth from right) will climb out of limos, drop their white terry-cloth robes in public and, as the ad says, "turn their backs...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Republicans define compassion by how few people are on food stamps and [Aid for Families with Dependent Children] and public housing, because we have given them the means to climb the ladder of success...
...they were charting the changing pressures, the Nobel citation states, "it was Osheroff's vigilant eye that noticed small extra jumps in the curve." Those jumps, it turned out, represented the change of helium-3 into a superfluid, a liquid with no viscosity that can climb up and over the walls of its container and exhibits other bizarre quantum behavior ordinarily observed only in subatomic particles...
...TIME's Hanoi bureau), but his father Frank Gibney Sr. headed the same TIME Tokyo bureau in the late '40s and early '50s, when he reported on the first stirrings of Japan's postwar economic rebirth. This week Gibney follows in his father's journalistic footsteps, watching Japan climb out of economic doldrums and prepare for a critical election. This is a time of unusual ferment in the normally staid nation, says Gibney. "The story isn't so much about next week's election as it is about a country in search of a future...
Harvard's high level of play has translated to a consistent climb in the national rankings...