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...current global warming trends continue," I intone ominously, "then soon the average daily temperature in Boston will be hot enough to make Back Bay a spring break paradise. On the flip side, Duke University will sit in a scorched wasteland and Columbia will be lost forever in a tropical rainforest. Speaking of science, Louis Agassiz, B. F. Skinner...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: 10,000 Names of Harvard | 1/4/1989 | See Source »

Produced by the team responsible for The Cosby Show, Roseanne presents the flip side of the impossibly perfect Huxtables. Yet the two shows have some key similarities: both were inspired by the monologues of a stand-up comic, and both depend on loosely structured, slice-of-life episodes rather than sitcom contrivances. A typical Roseanne segment might revolve around something as prosaic as a visit to a restaurant or a discussion of how to pay the bills. (Roseanne's strategy: "You pay the ones marked final notice, and you throw the rest away.") Best of all, behind the put-downs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Sharp Tongue in the Trenches: Roseanne Barr | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...flip side is that the number of undergraduates aiming at the more traditional, professional-oriented areas of graduate study--business, law and medicine--is on the decline. In fact, a mere 12 percent of those surveyed said they were interested in going to medical school...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: A New Generation? | 11/23/1988 | See Source »

...Bush's sociable and humane instinct has a flip side: he often receives conflicting advice and he hates to disappoint friends. This can cause him to be indecisive and tentative in asserting his views, a trait that is exacerbated by his inherent cautious nature and his lack of ideological commitments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What To Expect: The outlook for the Bush years | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...flip side, the Crimson stuffed in three power-play tallies on 11 attempts, despite the destruction of its planned power-play line...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Olympic Duo Returns to Ice | 11/15/1988 | See Source »

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