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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Further, NATO has already sustained some high-profile losses including the downing of an F-117A stealth Fighter and the capture of three infantry soldiers. Our relations with some of our allies around the world, especially Russia, have been strained. Finally, one of the stated goals of the strikes was...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No End in Sight | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

First, the institutional problems. Although the suicide rate at Harvard has remained fairly constant over the last 15 years, the temptation to accept its occurrence as inevitable is wrong. The statistics do not prove Harvard's success in preventing further suicides but rather its failure in reducing them.

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Ordinary People | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Just before break, the University let "Sarah" move off-campus, a decision her roommates feel was a terrible one, because it will isolate her even further. "I spoke to my tutor about her," said Sarah's roommate. "You know what he said? "Thanks for your concern.' That was the end...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Ordinary People | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

As a young engineering student in England, Wittgenstein saw the hope of the new mathematical logic, and rushed to Cambridge to become the protege of Bertrand Russell, whose monumental Principia Mathematica (1913), written with Alfred North Whitehead, was an attempt to reduce all mathematics to logic. Wittgenstein's first book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: Philosopher | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

The 20th century has made science more exacting. We demand more of its explanations. To say that the earth goes around the sun is no longer sufficient; we insist on knowing why. And in some fields--space research, for example--decades can go by while novel instruments are designed and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next? | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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