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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free stuff clutters up your room, however. Free food samples always catch my eye. My first stop in a grocery store is the bread counter, where they're likely to be giving out morsels of cheddar cheese dill bread or sesame semolina. Stores known to provide free samples are more likely to get my business. At Fresh Fields, a yuppie-style grocery store in Washington owned by Boston's Bread and Circus chain, the savvy customer can eat practically an entire lunch just by grazing from the sample baskets. Tacky? I guess so. Yummy...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Free For All | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

Although he said that the press has contributed to increasing public awareness of the seriousness of AIDS, Ho said that being in the public eye has changed his life and has made his work more difficult at times...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AIDS Researcher Speaks At Eliot House Banquet | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

Outcry arose from the bill's supporters (politicians and citizens alike), who condemned Slattery for his change of heart. Acting Governor A. Paul Cellucci, no doubt with one eye on next year's gubernatorial election, angrily denounced him and the bill's other opponents. Some citizens went so far as to leave threatening messages on Slattery's home answering machine, prompted by Boston Herald columnist and radio talk show host Howie Carr, who repeatedly announced the representative's home number and address on the air. Given this excessively antagonistic response, Slattery's apparently conscience-driven vote-change seems even more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slattery's Switch: A Profile in Courage | 11/18/1997 | See Source »

...gets results, Americans will use it. A Boston University researcher told the panel that the saving from just faster stroke rehabilitation and effective carpal-tunnel-syndrome treatment could cut the nation's annual medical bill by $11 billion. Such a saving is sure to catch the eye of HMOs and private health insurers. As Daniel Cherkin, a senior scientific investigator for a large HMO in Seattle, puts it, "Why something works is not of interest to those individuals and organizations providing care." What matters these days is that it works for less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACUPUNCTURE WORKS | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...publications, even in jail--especially in jail--and has a scholarly manner that impresses crooks and confounds cops. And he doesn't mind saying that on his little tour of the Gardner, he didn't think much of Donati's taste. Among other things, the philistine had his eye on an eagle that topped a battle flag from Napoleon's Imperial Guard. In any event, Connor says he never acted on the urge to rob the Gardner. That's because he walked across the street in Boston's Fenway area and saw a score he liked better. At the Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ART CAPER | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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