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Deep in some industrial warren, perhaps in Pyongyang, engineers carefully machine a nuclear bomb. On the other side of Asia, maybe in Tehran, chemists fill bomblets with deadly nerve gas. Farther west, let's say in Baghdad, scientists ladle toxins into a biological warhead. U.S. officials don't have, or at least won't reveal, the intelligence that proves such sinister work is afoot. But they believe it is happening. More important, they fear it is only a matter of time before one of those nations--North Korea, Iran or Iraq--lobs a missile toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shield Of Dreams | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...broad outlines of Viking culture and achievement have been known to experts for decades, but a spate of new scholarship, based largely on archaeological excavations in Europe, Iceland, Greenland and Canada, has begun to fill in the elusive details. And now the rest of us have a chance to share in those discoveries with the opening last week of a wonderfully rich exhibition titled "Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga" at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: The Amazing Vikings | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...time summer rolls around, the schools escalate their efforts with phone calls. Each program is permitted to make one phone call per week, and coaches tend to fill that quota each week during this portion of the recruiting period...

Author: By Derek J. Kaufman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brown Incident Questions Ivy Recruiting Policies | 5/4/2000 | See Source »

According to Prasse-Freeman, Pennsylvania and Princeton regularly engage in a highly unethical practice known as "over-recruiting." Essentially, more players are recruited than needed to fill spots, and only the best of the crop are encouraged to stay...

Author: By Derek J. Kaufman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brown Incident Questions Ivy Recruiting Policies | 5/4/2000 | See Source »

...organization has already made clear the spot it hopes Barbara S. Robinson will fill...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Barbara S. Robinson: Advocating Arts | 5/2/2000 | See Source »

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