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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...descended from nearly limbless lizards that lived during the age of dinosaurs 90 million years ago, snakes are divided into some 2,700 species, ranging in size from pencil-long African thread snakes to gigantic 20-ft. pythons and anacondas that are big enough to swallow a human. To fit into a cylindrical body, their viscera are ingeniously modified--with organs either shrunken or stacked on top of one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN PRAISE OF SNAKES | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...thoughts, though somewhat disturbing, fit with discussions I've since had with players and coach Tim Murphy: no one really cares that Harvard lost...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, | Title: Ivy League Football: A Regulated Competition | 10/9/1997 | See Source »

...were shocked and dumbfounded to receive a message describing a Winthrop House event in terms of "drunken fit," "barnyard animals" and "liquors--lots of it." The behavior implied is in clear violation of College-wide policy. It cannot be condoned in any House event. But more seriously, it brings with it the worst nightmares of House Masters: the call at 4 a.m. to rush to Holyoke Center, because a young woman has choked in bed on her vomit and died; or a young man has fallen from a balcony after drinking excessive amounts of beer and is on life-support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of E-Mails on Winthrop Dance | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

Three businesses fit this category: Emily Rose women's clothing has stood there for 58 years, Irving's Shoes for 75 and Surman's Men's Wear for 80, according to a press release sent out by Save Central Square...

Author: By Aby. Fung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Woolworth Closing Marks End Of an Era | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

Stansfield's new album, Lisa Stansfield, is the British singer's reintroduction to American audiences (her last U.S. release, Real Love, was in 1991). "We released a [follow-up] album, but it wasn't released in the states," says Stansfield. "Nothing was going on here that it sort of fit in with." But now, with lightly talented, heavily marketed acts like the Spice Girls tearing up U.S. charts, why shouldn't Stansfield have another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: RETRO SOUL | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

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