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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television, its sheer glut and ridiculous range of information from sitcoms to disasters to Ginsu knives. One shot isolates this inhuman condition of having a secondary reality at one's fingertips: Eddie's remote-control-enabled hand alone on the glowing background of the electronic hearth. How to distinguish anything in this white noise? Reduce everything to a series of zeroes and ones, of equivalences and otherwise? In perhaps the screens' best-ever depiction of date realism, Eddie pigheadedly refuses to allow the don't-mind answer of Darlene (Robin Wright Penn) to two dining options. He wants specifics...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hurlyburly: Revisiting the 80s | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...have a brother. I think some are thinking, "But she only has three sisters." If I'm going to lie, I have to be consistent. But I think you can lie in art, right? Or you can not lie in art. And you don't have to distinguish [between them] in art, right? So that's my prerogative on stage, to make this shit up. But you shouldn't lie in politics...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stand Up for the Comedians, Love Your Liebman | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

Voters looking for a way to distinguish thecandidates might focus on the credentials eachbrings to the race...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Somerville Mayoral Candidates Play to Win | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

...council could go the way of the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), which after years of fighting against control from University Hall has been thrown, along with non-PBHA service programs, under the administrative umbrella of Harvard's Public Service Network operated out of Phillips Brooks House (PBH, to distinguish it from PBHA...

Author: By Andrew S. Chang, | Title: A Year Spent Gathering the News | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

Decoded cDNA began tumbling out of his machine. A portion of these decoded regions were used as tags--he called them expressed sequence tags (ESTs)--to help scientists distinguish one gene from another and identify related genes even in other species. "His invention of ESTs was inspired," says Victor McKusick, a geneticist at Johns Hopkins University who is often called the father of genetic medicine. In June 1991, when Venter published his first paper based on this work, scientists had identified only about 4,000 genes, each one representing years of painstaking labor. In one day, Venter added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racing To Map Our DNA | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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