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...proposed bill would encourage mediation and give companies a 90-day period to fix a computer glitch before a plaintiff could file suit. There would be a punitive-damages cap for small businesses, and companies would be held liable only for the portion of damage they cause. ?Both sides would get something,? says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. Industry would get some protections, but, he says ?the bill would still leave a lot of room for people to go to court.? Some key Democrats, however, want the President to keep insisting that that room be kept as large as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Struggles to Work Out Bugs in Y2K Liability | 6/29/1999 | See Source »

...feel a little guilty for not supporting "We join in thy jubilee throng," but it's such a little thing that doesn't accomplish anything. It only reminds us of how powerful our discomfort about our history is, and how desperately we keep trying to fix what is still not perfect about Harvard. I am probably one of about five people who care about the lyrics to a song that about 5 percent of the Harvard undergraduate population knows. In several years the old lyrics will have faded from memory and nobody's life will be any different because...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CAMBRIDGE | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...feel a little guilty for not supporting "we join in thy jubilee throng," but it's such a little thing that doesn't accomplish anything. It only reminds us of how powerful our discomfort about our history is, and how desperately we keep trying to fix what is still not perfect about Harvard. I am probably one of about five people who care about the lyrics to a song that about 5 percent of the Harvard undergraduate population knows. In several years the old lyrics will have faded from memory and nobody's life will be any different because...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, | Title: What's in a Song? | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...requires industrial nations to reduce greenhouse emissions. More than $13 million has been spent on ads to block ratification of the treaty by the U.S. Senate. "The purpose of the ads was to convince most Americans that there isn't a problem or that it's too expensive to fix," says National Environmental Trust spokesman Peter Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Global Warming? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...fix the problem, researchers injected the mice's brains with neuronal stem cells, a kind of parent cell that can generate any cell type in the central nervous system. These same cells have shown promise in the localized treatment of Parkinson's disease. In this case, though, the stem cells had to migrate throughout the mice's brains, then figure out what kinds of cells to turn into--a much more complicated process. Yet that's just what they did, fanning out and transforming themselves into oligodendrocytes, which started churning out myelin insulation. In 60% of cases, the tremors stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain Repair Tool Kit | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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