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...Coach Joe Marrone, Connecticut had not had a losing season in fifteen years...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Huskies Humble M. Booters | 9/23/1993 | See Source »

Biogen has the option of expanding further--upto 690,000 square feet. If the full expansiontakes place, the city will receive a total of $20million in tax revenue during the fifteen yearsafter construction is begun

Author: By Margaret Isa, | Title: Biotech Firm Gets 50% Tax Break | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

...Fifteen minutes later, you arrive in the huge-but-not-big-enough Star parking lot. It would have been shorter, and perhaps even cheaper, to take the T. Along the way, there was the guy who cut you off without using his turn signal, the woman who put on her left turn signal that made you change into the right lane but then didn't turn left, and the slimeballs who snuck past you in the half-lane on the right to do the U-turn past the T station and into...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Don't Leave Home--If You're Not in a Tank | 8/10/1993 | See Source »

...back to Harvard Square, the absence of one feature of civilized traffic is clear. There are no left-turn arrows in Cambridge, only delayed lights. The lights change for those travelling north about fifteen seconds earlier than those for their compatriots on the southbound side. Once the light has changed, everyone travelling north who wanted to turn left has done so; now the oncoming traffic makes turning left from the southbound lanes impossible. Inevitable long waits ensue...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Don't Leave Home--If You're Not in a Tank | 8/10/1993 | See Source »

...estimated 100,000 students carry a gun to school, according to the National Education Association. In a survey released last week, pollster Louis Harris found alarming evidence of a gun culture among the 2,508 students he polled in 96 schools across the U.S. Fifteen percent of students in the sixth through 12th grades said they have carried a handgun in the past 30 days, 11% said they have been shot at, and 59% said they know where to get a gun if they need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

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