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...parents. When Rob Swift, 23, graduated from Stanford last year with a degree in international relations and announced that he had found a job in India, his mother offered to pay him to stay behind. And it's a safe bet that some of those spectators watching their offspring collect Harvard M.B.A.s wish the kids were still waving dollar bills and anticipating careers closer to home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Work? Try the World. | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...State University, believes Yummy was sent on a specific mission of revenge sparked by a drug feud or a personal insult. "If it was just an initiation ceremony, he'd do it from a car. But to go right up to the victims, that means he was trying to collect some points and get some rank or maybe a nice little cash bonus." Yummy opened fire with a 9-mm semiautomatic into a crowd of kids playing football. Sammy Seay, 16, was struck in the hand. "I hit the ground," says Seay. "It was the second or third shot before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder In Miniature | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

Biology 143. Biology of the Fungi: "Students learn how to collect, isolate, and identify a variety of fungi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Quickie Guide to Picking Courses | 9/16/1994 | See Source »

...seems to be opportunities can often turn into pratfalls. In early August the fcc auctioned off licenses to provide two-way TV over cellular systems. A total of 178 companies submitted winning bids totaling $215 million. Yet nearly 30 of the winners soon defaulted, and the government expects to collect only about $130 million of the original amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights! Camera! Dial Tone! | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...muses, when we need her? And never mind that the Jacob King figure is an obvious sketch of the real-life mobster Bugsy Siegel and that since everyone knows that Siegel was murdered, there isn't a lot of suspense to be generated about whether King will live to collect Social Security. Blue is a good, tough, hard-edged character ("she only cries on cue," someone says of her), and a straight-ahead, page-turner approach might have worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Hollywood Babble-On | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

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