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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Potential Rhodes scholars apply from either their home state or a state where they have attended college for at least two years. This year, the 32 American winners represent 26 different colleges and universities. They will join about 60 international scholars chosen from 18 different countries...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two Seniors Net Rhodes Honor | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...great empires thus falter was explained by a 16th century Arab physician. Imbibe the brew, he warned, and "the body becomes a mere shadow of its former self. The heart and the guts are so weakened..." Or, in modern parlance, you polish either your gold-plated Melior or your M-16. You can't launch a Hellfire missile with a frappuccino in hand. Pleasure trumps prowess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latte Lightweights | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...Medical Association. In one study, researchers compared Celebrex, one of the so-called COX-II inhibitors (they attack an enzyme, COX-II, that promotes inflammation) to naproxen, a commonly used NSAID. Both reduced the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. But while 26% of the naproxen patients got an ulcer in either the stomach or the small intestine, ulcers struck only 4% to 6% of those taking Celebrex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arthritics, Rejoice | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...momentum, but the McCain operation argues that it has time to catch up. The hustle that has taken McCain so far in the Granite State hasn't yet been fully effective in South Carolina, where 33% of G.O.P. voters don't know enough about McCain to have either a good or a bad opinion of him, according to the TIME/CNN poll. To fix that, the McCain videotaped biography has been mailed to party activists, and the TV-commercial version has been airing for the past two weeks. There is some evidence that Bush support in the state is soft. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: George W.'s Rescue Squad | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

When the European Union proposed a plan to isolate and weaken Serbian strongman SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC by delivering heating oil directly to towns run by his opponents, U.S. diplomats were skeptical. They said the oil--which Serbia badly needs this winter because of the Western embargo--would either fail to reach its recipients or end up in Milosevic's hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serbia: Chilly Christmas Wishes From Your President | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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