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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed to link two alley ways that currently exist together to Harvard Square by a new connector which we call an arcade," said Easley Hemner, president of The Stubbins Associates architectural firm in Cambridge. "There would be cafes on the outside, retail space on the ground level, and offices above...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Bank Has New Plan for Square | 7/28/1995 | See Source »

...China sees a pattern that may not in fact exist. The Clinton foreign policy in general is somewhat ad hoc and driven by politics. The approach to China is no different, but Beijing sees something more systematic and more sinister. "In China, more and more people are wondering, What are the Americans up to?" says Cui Liru, a scholar at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations in Beijing. "Quite a number believe the Americans regard a powerful China as a hindrance to the U.S. in its bid to maintain world dominance, and so are trying hard to keep China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAUGHT IN THE CROSS FIRE | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...will turn 72 Saturday -- with clear lungs and a normal heart and pulse, with good blood pressure and cholesterol kept in a normal range by medication. But is that enough? "Dole and his campaign are trying to be aggressive and proactive about a problem that doesn't really exist now but might flare up on them later," saysTIME's Michael Duffy. "By laying the predicate of candor and disclosure now, they not only take the issue off the table, they force other candidates to play at their level of openness. We'll see a lot of hematology charts flying over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS DOLE TOO OLD? | 7/21/1995 | See Source »

...illusion of a powerful magician in The Wizard of Oz. After more than a century of looking for it, brain researchers have long since concluded that there is no conceivable place for such a self to be located in the physical brain, and that it simply doesn't exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GLIMPSES OF THE MIND | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

...believes, are the basic building blocks of consciousness. What the brain does, whether asleep or awake, he notes, is make images. But these are purely mental constructions, even when they're based on external information. For example, says Llinas, "light is nothing but electromagnetic radiation. Colors clearly don't exist outside our brains, nor does sound. Is there a sound if a tree drops in the forest and no one hears it? No. Sound is the relationship between external vibrations and the brain. If there is no brain, there can be no sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GLIMPSES OF THE MIND | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

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