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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to work on my thesis and protest," Shivani Grover '99 said. Grover said her reason for ignoring the holiday hinges on the work Christopher Columbus did to destroy native Caribbean peoples...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Going Away To Work or Not to Work | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...single strangest thing about the week that led up to the release of Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony was the consensus around Washington. It was something like a certainty that the tapes would be the coup de grace. Clinton would destroy himself by twitching, equivocating and storming out of the room. To believe that, all you had to do was ignore the weight of public opinion that's been pressing upon this event all year. Most Americans already know what they dislike about the President. What was brought home by the Clinton squirm session, and then by the transcripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover That Keyhole | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...recognized marine fisheries were overexploited or already depleted, and 44% more were at their limits of exploitation. Nontarget fish are swept up in the process. Dredges and trawls destroy habitats--Earle calls the invaders "bulldozer equivalents"--as they drag the ocean floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYLVIA EARLE : Call Of The Sea | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Killing one American every three minutes, diabetes in an illness that limits its victims' ability to process sugar and, in turn, affects their other bodily functions. Patients with Type I diabetes, ordinarily diagnosed as children, cannot digest glucose throughout their lives as their immune systems attack and destroy the insulin-producing islet cells in the pancreas...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Diabetes Center Renews Commitment to Finding a Cure | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

Muller, who examined the new pages but legally could only paraphrase them, says that Suijk "got the pages because Otto didn't want to destroy them." The rest of Anne's original texts, including her revisions, are kept at the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation. Suijk is hoping that a philanthropist will buy his fragments and donate them to the Institute so that he can use the proceeds to support his center in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Outside of the Attic | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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