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...popping up like dandelions after a summer rain--and being plucked for public offerings even before they start to flower--it's no wonder full-grown companies have been hard at work on their own Web gardens. Last week Walt Disney Co. became the latest media giant wanting to convert its Internet assets into a growth stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Mouse Click on the Net? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...very different compounds. Androstenedione (andro, for short) is an honest-to-goodness steroid and a precursor to testosterone. It is banned by the National Football League and the International Olympic Committee but not by Major League Baseball. Athletes take the supplement in the hope that their body will convert it into testosterone and help them develop bigger muscles during training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Muscle Candy | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...early '50s, we non-Christian students at Loreto House were suspicious of Mother Teresa's motives in helping street children and orphans. Was she rescuing these children to convert them? Her antiabortion campaigns among homeless women were as easy for us to ignore as were the antiabortion lectures our nuns delivered twice weekly. The government had made even very young women aware of the consequences of population explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTHER TERESA: The Saint | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...HRCF and AACF] passed out hot chocolate tostudents in front of the Science Center inDecember," Boschee says. "A lot of students askedus why we were doing it, and I think a smallnumber took it as an attempt to convert otherstudents...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Praying Alive | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Although the police stayed in the building for only 10 years, their subsequent move a decade later to a new building in Eliot Square opened the property for James White to buy and convert it into a carriage factory to address Cambridge's then most-popular means of transportation. Sandy and Janet Cahaly, the current owners, do not know the exact date of the change-in-hands of the property or the date of the photograph that hangs in the hair salon. But county records show that the property was sold to Abraham Lavash of Somerville...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Old Carriage House | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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