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...While larcenies are frequent on Harvard's campus, HUPD officials said that yesterday's incident was uncommon...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burglar Strikes Three Suites in Matthews Hall | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...rule of thumb, if you do something three or more times a week, you need a sport-specific shoe. The exceptions: basketball, running and aerobics. These always require special shoes, regardless of how often you participate in them. Basketball and aerobics, in particular, involve frequent lateral movement, demanding shoes that give you good stability. Look for a sneaker with a high back (or profile) that will keep your foot from rolling over. Otherwise you'll risk painful ankle sprains and torn ligaments and tendons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do the Shoes Fit? | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

This reaction of the frequent binge drinker is shared by the International Center for Alcohol Policies, which describes itself as "supported by eleven international beverage alcohol companies." A report of this center refers to a ten-drink measure of dangerous drinking in contrast to our five-drink measure. That's one way to drastically reduce the size of the college alcohol problem: define it out of existence...

Author: By Henry Wechsler, | Title: A Plea to End Binge Drinking | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...scanning the horizon, looking for anything that might threaten their business and profits ? and when they see something, they make a move to head off that potential threat." All this paranoia seems unreasonable to most U.S. consumers, to whom comparison shopping - and the freebies that come with it, like frequent flier miles - are taken for granted. While the German businesses? aggressive stance has been upheld consistently by the country?s highest courts, some companies, like American Express, have taken their appeals to the European Commission. If the E.C. doesn't grant German consumers a little taste of a free market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unlimited Guarantee? Was Ist Das? | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

DIED. JOAN BRADEN, 77, former State Department official and frequent hostess to Washington's political heavyweights for more than three decades; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, Va. Braden inspired the character of the matriarch in the '70s ABC series Eight Is Enough, a show based on husband Tom Braden's book about their family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 13, 1999 | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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