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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CZECH HOCKEY Canada and the U.S. shoved in as many NHL players as could fit on a team and packed them off to Nagano; each squad came home with zero Olympic medals. The Czechs, led by NHL goaltender Dominik Hasek, beat them both. Then they crushed the formerly occupying Russians in an emotional championship game. The all-night celebration in Prague made U.S. ticker-tape parades look silly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of 1998 Sports | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...pharmacy student, I found your report on Ritalin and hyperactivity fascinating. I'm glad Ritalin is available for those who truly need it. But at the same time, I'm concerned. If we give children a drug to modify their behavior so they will "fit in," what are we saying about our tolerance for other people's actions? What if these kids get the message that it's acceptable to use drugs to change their behavior or to fit in? Won't that undermine other messages, such as, It's O.K. to be yourself? ALEX STRONACH Surrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...some Harvard professors, however, thepublishing needs of the press do not fit theirparticular research...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard University Press: Not Your Average Publisher | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...Room desks are being outfitted with keyboard trays as each House comes offline every couple of summers, or are being replaced entirely if the keyboard trays don't fit," she says...

Author: By Neeraj K. Gupta, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HASCS Equalizes House Resources | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

This time, though, she may have gone too far. No one is saying whether Maathai encouraged the burning of the bulldozers or overzealous followers acted on their own initiative. She claims that thugs were hired to beat up members of her movement and then destroyed the machinery in a fit of anger when they were not paid what they were promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: WANGARI MAATHAI: Her Women's Army Defies An Iron Regime | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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