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Vermont, expected to be a high scoring team, started the year with a flash. It split a pair of 7-4 games, losing at UNH to open the season and defeating Boston University. Jerry Gernander scored four goals against the Terriers...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First Home Weekend for M. Hockey | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

Robert J. Sales, associate director of the MIT News Office, remains unsure why the student didn't simply buy a kit with a battery and flash, one not designed to explode...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Mistake After Mistake | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...must actually want to be her. I disagree wholeheartedly, though I must admit that it is nice to see someone else who's as short as I am kicking ass on a weekly basis. And how much fun would it be to get to carry a gun and flash that FBI badge all the time...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: X-Static! | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

American consumers are braver than they used to be about e-commerce, and yet one out of five surveyed is still uncomfortable buying on the Web. So for all the scaredy-cats out there, here's a news flash: typing your credit-card number into landsend.com is just as safe - if not safer - than reading the number to a catalog's sales rep over the phone. If you really want to go out on a limb, hand your Visa to a waiter. "Consumer fears are overblown," says David Schatsky, e-commerce analyst at Jupiter Communications. "There's not a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is It Safe to Shop Online? | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...President Clinton isn't the only player constrained by domestic political concerns - WTO membership has become a flash point in the epic struggle between Chinese hard-liners and reformists for control of the country's economy. The reformers, led by Premier Zhu, hope to use the strict open-market conditions attached to WTO membership as a crowbar with which to open up China's economy. But hard-liners, fearing the social unrest that rapid reforms may bring, are digging in their heels against some of the conditions demanded by the industrialized nations. Despite renewed negotiation efforts, the changing domestic political...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Lobs a Hail Mary Over China Trade Deal | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

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