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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard students are far too jaded about the weather. It changes so often, they figure, that any attempt to check it on the cover of the newspaper or even on the online quickly-updated Web pages is not going to be a reliable source of whether they can go for a morning jog without facing gale-force winds and whether they should take the tunnels to breakfast. Stick your hand out the window, an average instruction might be, and figure...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Dartboard: Come Again Some Other Day | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...funds for the slim chance of cashing in. "The anti-lottery contingent was painting pictures of people spending their food money on lottery tickets," says Holmes. "The pro-lottery camp chafes at the idea of government protecting adults from risky behavior, and argues that the profits from state lotteries cover crucial programs like education without raising taxes." Of course, says Holmes, "the most ridiculous part of all this is that many of those churchgoers who voted against the lottery will head on down to Biloxi, Mississippi, this weekend for a little out-of-state gambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And He?s Not So Hot on Blackjack, Either | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...have a specific area to cover...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Ballpark Wisdom: Dining Out with Harvard's Fenway Boys | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...current world record is 300 in one sittingoby a college student in Los Angeles in 1974. But it seems high time to drag the goldfish swallowing spotlight back to Boston. At $1.50 a dozen, a $38 bet should cover the costs. For the sensitive, feeder goldfish are bred to be eaten. Usually food for turtles or bigger fish, their fate is already sealed, so why not take a hint from gramps, take a trip to a pet store near you, and make a little history...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: (Gulp): A Brief History of Goldfish Swallowing | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...landscape is both natural and necessary. Furthermore, the Vice President's legendary blandness--though likely more legend than fact--probably inclined the media to throw itself at Bradley's feet. The national media must have been overjoyed when Gore took the cue that Bradley was not only on the cover of Time magazine and in the headlines, but at his heels, and put out the offer for debates...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Why Gore and Bradley Must Debate | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

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