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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning of her sophomore year, the leg had healed enough to be cleared, but her knee still retained too much fluid. Plus, the pain in her legs continued. Running was tough. Sprints were practically impossible. To this day Black can only run on a basketball court, and even that on a limited level...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: Black Undaunted by Injury-Plagued Career | 2/12/1997 | See Source »

...write standard English, there will be a basic communication problem in the United States, and one side just won't be able to understand what the other is trying to say. If we can't communicate with one another, how can a division ever be erased or at least fluid...

Author: By Rachel L. Barenbaum, | Title: Harvard Has Ebonic Fever | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

That dance begins at around the third week of gestation, when a thin layer of cells in the developing embryo performs an origami-like trick, folding inward to give rise to a fluid-filled cylinder known as the neural tube. As cells in the neural tube proliferate at the astonishing rate of 250,000 a minute, the brain and spinal cord assemble themselves in a series of tightly choreographed steps. Nature is the dominant partner during this phase of development, but nurture plays a vital supportive role. Changes in the environment of the womb--whether caused by maternal malnutrition, drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FERTILE MINDS | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...Willie Stargell on the "We Are Fam-a-lee" Pittsburgh Pirates, except that the sounds in the clubhouse aren't disco but gospel. The other day, Favre took a ribbing from White after he asked if the gospel chorus some Packers were singing in the shower was Lighter Fluid. (It was Whiter Blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEADERS OF THE PACK | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...clear, the law (which was developed in the era of railway barons) is not. After deadlocking, the Federal Trade Commission in 1993 surrendered jurisdiction over Microsoft to the Justice Department. FTC Commissioner Christine Varney, an expert in the field, says it's hard to apply antitrust law in a fluid situation. "My concern is with the law's ability to keep pace with market conditions in fields that change so rapidly," she says. "Once it's clear a practice is anticompetitive, the issue may already be moot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN SEARCH OF THE REAL BILL GATES | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

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