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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cows -- a snook cocked at Picasso's heroic Spanish bulls. Kippered there on the canvas in their dense yet somehow airy paint, yearning, dumb and absurdly coquettish, they are among the most memorable animals in modern art. Several of them, like Cow with the Beautiful Muzzle, 1954, also contain some of the most inspired and wristy drawing of Dubuffet's career, formed by the brush -- or its handle -- dragging through the thick paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Outlaw Who Loved Laws | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...said Strategic Edge subscribes to several computer database services, some of which contain full articles or sections of articles. But for the many documents for which copies cannot be retrieved over the phone, he and his partner Robert J. Hutter '94 depend on the foot power of others with access to the libraries via their student status...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Company Profits on Harvard Libraries | 7/23/1993 | See Source »

...student was working with a gram of copper cyanide in a fume hood," a safety device where a sheet of glass is used to contain possibly dangerous fumes emitting from experiments, Bochnak said yesterday. "It apparently overheated and the student was flashed with the copper cyanide...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Chem Lab Spill Closes Oxford St. | 7/16/1993 | See Source »

Under pressure from Congress, which had threatened to impose a ratings system like the one used for films, all four television networks agreed that this fall they will begin broadcasting a parental advisory before and during programs that contain unusual violence. The networks will decide what's unusual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest June 27-July 3 | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...equation to x 7 + y 7 = z 7, for example, or x 12 + y 12 = z 12 -- said Fermat, and no combination of integers will work. "I have found a truly wonderful proof," wrote Fermat in the margin of a book, "which this margin is too small to contain." He lived until 1665 but never did write it down -- evidence, many believe, that he hadn't proved the proposition after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fini To Fermat's Last Theorem | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

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