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While not as informative as a National Geographic special on a mediocre day, and not quite as entertaining as a decent feature film (which has a comparable admission price), Amazon still offers a fun alternative to staying home. It is worth both the time and temporary discomfort to the neck, even if only because it is an IMAX show. It might not be educational in the strictest sense, but that is not the point. Like most, if not all IMAX pictures, Amazon is all about being swallowed up by a world of vivid color and humbled...

Author: By Patty Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wet and Wild in the IMAX's 'Amazon' | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

Still, University officials, including then Dean of the College Fred E. Jewitt '57 expressed discomfort about having to police the private lives of their students...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Checking Your Card | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

...joints--sometimes moderate, sometimes severe, usually responsive to treatment with one of a number of drugs. Pain can be just the beginning, though, for the more than 2 million Americans who suffer from the variant of the disease known as rheumatoid arthritis. This unfortunate minority may experience not just discomfort but also joint deformities, fatigue, nodules of tissue under the skin and inside internal organs and, in rare cases, inflammation of the membranes surrounding the heart and lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arthritis Under Arrest | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...real test, though, won't come until later, when new investors face the results of their first sustained market decline. An unprecedented 43% of adult Americans are now invested in stocks, up from only 21% in 1990. (That helps explain why we are hearing less Schadenfreude over the discomfort of Wall Street yuppies than in past corrections.) A striking 57% of all household assets today are allocated to equities. Small wonder: the market has doubled just since 1994. But these investors are about to get account statements showing declines of 20% to 30%. Even if they have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What A Drag! | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...Gore did and what Clinton did, but there's also a unifying thread: anyone from third grade on knows they weren't being honest, and people are sick of politicians who parse the truth." What's more, says Stevens, if Gore doesn't find a way to express his discomfort over Clinton's dalliance with an intern, "his lack of outrage will start to define him. At what point does his loyalty to Clinton end and his own set of values begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This What We Expect? | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

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