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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When published aeronautical data turned out to be unreliable, the Wright brothers built their own wind tunnel to test airfoils and measure empirically how to lift a flying machine into the sky. They were the first to discover that a long, narrow wing shape was the ideal architecture of flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviators: THE WRIGHT BROTHERS | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

The Wright brothers and their invention, then, sparked a revolution as far-reaching as the industrial and digital revolutions. But that revolution did not come about by luck or accident. It was vision, quiet resolve and the application of scientific methodology that enabled Orville and Wilbur to carry the human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviators: THE WRIGHT BROTHERS | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

With this groundwork, Laping said researchers hope to discover the cells HIV attacks and then develop a prototype vaccine.

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Foundation Donates $2.5M to AIDS Study | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

The shift to completely randomized housing assignments four years ago has created a present Quad population completely determined by Lady Luck's blind hand. Previously home to the women of Radcliffe, the Quad now houses over 1,000 of Harvard's lotteried male and female students. This population has split...

Author: By Allison M. Fitzgerald, A SCRUTINY | Title: LIVING ON THE EDGE | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

Several weeks ago, when it was still possible to make a snowman, salmon-colored fliers began appearing around the Pit, announcing "The First Annual Daryl Janes Snowman Competition: Grand Prize $100," and went on to list an elaborate set of rules and regulations governing submissions. FM sent a reporter to...

Author: By D. M. Rosenblatt, | Title: Snow Search | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

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