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...incredibly loyal following. Cult members get their fix whenever possible. People eat it for breakfast, lunch, dinner and desert. Some slyly stash mounds of it into plastic bags and Tupperware. When you see it, you just have to eat it. One rarely sees a full bin of it in the servery. It's a precious commodity...

Author: By Robert J. Saranchak, | Title: The Wasteland | 11/7/2000 | See Source »

...What this great country has right now is an opportunity. An opportunity to put America's future back in the hands of Americans. To have a federal government that trusts the people it's working for, to have an administration that brings that government together to finally fix Social Security, to rebuild our nation's schools after years of creeping decay, to make health care affordable and efficient for all Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Al and Dubya Had a Final 15 Minutes of TV Time... | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...most serious incident to date trapped residents Ellen Harkavy '01 and Erin E. Conroy '01 for more than two hours last week. According to Harkavy, the Harvard maintenance operator was unable to release them or fix the elevator, and two hours passed before an elevator company technician arrived...

Author: By Ross A. Macdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Aging PfoHo Elevators Malfunction | 10/31/2000 | See Source »

Canjura added that occasional elevator troubles "happen in every House" from time to time, and that the slated replacement of the Comstock elevator during the summer of 2001 should fix "99 percent" of the difficulties...

Author: By Ross A. Macdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Aging PfoHo Elevators Malfunction | 10/31/2000 | See Source »

Inside the center, it was even worse. "The whole world fell apart," said an FAA employee on duty. First, the system started rebooting, distorting the critical information the radars displayed. When no quick fix could be found, the controllers who direct the almost 7,000 flights a day that flow through the airspace were switched to the emergency system. Some of them were not up to speed on that version, though, and they became confused and started yelling, "The backup system isn't working!" The problem was caused by what an agency spokesman called a glitch in the software--installed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Air-Traffic-Glitch Control? | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

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