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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compensate for the shorter hours, Loker will be featuring a new stand called Fast Track. The store, which began operation on Monday, will be open until 11 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 7 p.m. during the weekend. It will feature a combination of the best-selling items of the other three food vendors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Reduces Operating Hours Of Loker Eateries | 1/8/1997 | See Source »

...Fast Track is a good idea," said Rudd W. Coffey '97, who served as a member of the advisory committee on Memorial Hall. "It is a self-contained unit that allows Loker to run on a skeleton crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Reduces Operating Hours Of Loker Eateries | 1/8/1997 | See Source »

...even millions of copies of itself every day. As long as the immune system cleared those infectious particles as quickly as they formed, blood tests would show no change in viral load. "It's like a person running on a treadmill," Ho explains. It doesn't matter how fast they run. To an observer, they appear to be staying in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DR. DAVID HO: THE DISEASE DETECTIVE | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...predeconstructed" shows like Beavis and Butt-head, in which the principals are intentionally distanced from their own programs. The ideal would be to remove oneself from experience while engaging in experience and to make experience deliberately fleeting. The structure of the sitcom Seinfeld continued to depend on dozens of fast-moving, bite-size scenes that simulate the effect of surfing while remaining within a single coherent situation, thus pre-empting the viewer's urge to switch channels. Attention spans remained brief. Control remained remote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TO BE OR NOT TO BE...WHATEVER | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...would be ignoring the fact that economic forces connect us all. For instance, if the high school students who now work at fast-food outlets in order to get money for Batman comics and albums by Snoop Doggy Dogg no longer feel the need to buy Batman comics and albums by Snoop Doggy Dogg, they might quit their jobs and leave the rest of us waiting hours for our hamburgers. We might get tired of waiting and eat elsewhere, changing our fat intake in a way that endangers the entire diet industry. That's how free-market capitalism works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I WANT MY HOMEWORK! | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

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