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...lost those institutions completely, however, we'd all miss out. There's something to be said for individuality and character. Call it Harvard regional flavor. If every house were a sterile, characterless collection of numerically-diverse communities, some timeworn College institutions might disappear: the Dunster goat roast, the Kirkland Incest Fest...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Randomization: Playing God, Again | 12/8/1992 | See Source »

Producer Paul Fox has given the band a more solid rhythmic foundation for this outing. Previously, Merchant and the other Maniacs could be so evanescent that they threatened to disappear in their own vapor trail. Here they sound sturdier, even when a string quartet floats through Merchant's wrenching Jezebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fascinating Friction | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...West has been highly critical of the Soviet nuclear legacy but has done little to alleviate the danger. Foreigners come mainly to gather data on the effects -- medical, industrial and political -- of accidents, and then disappear. "Sometimes we feel like rabbits in a laboratory," says Viktor Ribachuk, Ukraine's deputy environment minister. Ukraine officials argue that they cannot do without nuclear power for the next five or six years, and many contend they will need it permanently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Time Bombs | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

Despite that lack of smarts, Baker says she notices a definite response among the remaining turkeys as their fellow fowls disappear...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: BEHIND THE SCENES OF THANKSGIVING | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...active process or just a question of disuse? "That's been a raging debate ever since Darwin's time," Poulson says. "What we've found is that it's disuse. There is no natural selection to screen out any bad mutations that affect the eyes. So eventually they disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subterranean Secrets | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

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