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Harvard's long-term goal for season is to reach Nationals. But, in the more immediate future, it looks to conquer its rivals UMass and Princeton...

Author: By Amy E. Ooten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Water Polo Drowns Brown, 22-3 | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...Robert Patrick), a horde of alien parasites rapidly takes over the faculty of a small town high school in Midwestern America. The fun doesn't stop there, of course; these aliens have dreams of world domination--after all the teachers have been "commuted" it's time to conquer the student body. When an alien-possessed history teacher tells his class that today's exam will consist of "writing down the names of all your living relatives," audience members have a sneaking suspicion that these relatives won't be human (or "living") too much longer...

Author: By Sara M. Jablon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: THE FACULTY | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

...20th century medicine did little to increase the natural life-span of healthy humans. The next medical revolution will change that, because genetic engineering has the potential to conquer cancer, grow new blood vessels in the heart, block the growth of blood vessels in tumors, create new organs from stem cells and perhaps even reset the primeval genetic coding that causes cells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biotech Century | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...these ships are traveling at 4.5 billion miles an hour, are loaded with 2 million tons of high-end proton neutralizers each and are traveling through the Milky Way at vector coordinate 5.88, how long will it take for them to reach Earth? Should the aliens conquer Paris, London, Moscow and New York themselves, or delegate these tasks to a better-trained corp of omnivorous, rock-eating arthropods from the planet Grock? Please be prepared to comment on these case questions during the informational session, where you will meet employees recently graduated from such schools as Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: from the circular file Of OCS | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: Maybe everybody else is doing it. In court on Thursday, Microsoft backed up its defense of divide-and-conquer tactics by showing that AOL and Netscape appeared to be up to the same thing -- just months after an alleged share-the-market meeting between Netscape and Microsoft. Cited: An internal AOL document describing a multimillion-dollar offer to Netscape to license its browser software and "create a vision to compete with Microsoft" -- in exchange for Netscape's staying out of AOL's online service business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft: Everybody's Doing It | 10/29/1998 | See Source »

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