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Neither Frank nor Murphy would specify the exact nature of the agreement between the Coop and Barnes and Noble, Murphy said the Coop and the store manager will split profits on a percentage basis, but he would not say what that split will...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer and Sarah E. Scrogin, S | Title: Has the Coop Met Its Match? | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

Marshall wouldn't give an exact number of candidates, but she did say that "it's many, many dozens...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Police Chief Search Nearing End | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

Last year, Benson challenged his team to place seventh at the Eastern Championships--the winner of which goes on to the four-team National Championships--and the Crimson completed the mission, finishing in that exact spot...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Polomen Prepared To Sink Brown | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

...exact series of social contexts that shaped the human mind over the past couple of million years is, of course, lost in the mists of prehistory. In trying to reconstruct the "ancestral environment," evolutionary psychologists analyze the nearest approximations available--the sort of technologically primitive societies that the Una bomber extols. The most prized examples are the various hunter-gatherer societies that anthropologists have studied this century, such as the Ainu of Japan, the !Kung San of southern Africa and the Ache of South America. Also valuable are societies with primitive agriculture in the few cases where--as with some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EVOLUTION OF DESPAIR | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

This atmosphere passed, but 200 years later a similar dementia prevails. Its obsessive objects this time are not the Terror in France and the war between France and England, as they were in 1793. They are moral--or, to be more exact, they are about the rhetoric of morality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PULLING THE FUSE ON CULTURE | 8/7/1995 | See Source »

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