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...will pay the bill. Says Iwan of Caltech: ``The really difficult issue is what to do with the existing stock of less-safe, potentially hazardous structures. They're already built and paid for, there is probably a different owner, and now you've discovered there's a flaw. Who is responsible, the owner or the original builders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW TO LIVE DANGEROUSLY | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

Still, I love the world of sports, enough to possibly devote my life to them; and I know deep down that I'll always owe this character flaw to my father. The world of The Bunker helped him to escape reality; self-psychoanalysis tells me that I wanted to escape with him, and here I am, still trying, having chosen the sports medium as my favorite. There are enough people like me who use the sports world as a daily escape to justify full-color covers of sports sections in newspapers all over the country; if I'm lucky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Memoriam | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...Crimson has always passed the puck a lot on the power play, perhaps more than it should; that seems to be another flaw of this year's unit, although not particularly any more than usual. And Harvard still manages to find a way to light the lamp an average of once a night on the man-advantage...but somehow, we expect more. Here, more than anywhere, there are gaping holes to fill...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Midterm Report Card: Icemen Have Work to Do | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...Politburo member identified as the World's Oldest Living Bolshevik (first seen in Angels), the ferociously bored lesbian (Marisa Tomei, in a sly, engaging performance) who guards the aforementioned brains, and an eight-year-old girl whose grandparents were exposed to radiation and passed down to her a genetic flaw that has rendered her mute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Red Sunset | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

...line, the company agreed to replace a few thousand of the chips for buyers who requested a switch, and it will soon begin selling a corrected model. But to Robert Sombric, the data-processing manager for the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, government, Intel's decision to go on selling the flawed chips for months was inexcusable. Said he: "I treat the city's money just as if it were my own. And I'm telling you: I wouldn't buy one of these things right now, until we really know the truth about it." Repairing Pentium's flaw may be much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Chips Are Down | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

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