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Moravcsik mentioned that a CNN debate on the subject earlier this week was similar to debates in the 1950s on the Cold War, in the 1960s and 1970s on Vietnam "and indeed at the height of British Imperialism...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Classes gain from, add to Kosovo discourse | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

Sophomore Dora Gyorffy surprised no one with a high jump of 1.88 meters, a centimeter above the qualifying height...

Author: By Bryan Lee, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Track Moves Outdoors | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...until state regulators grant certification. "Radioactive wastes will be a lot safer here than sitting around at old bomb plants," said ROBERT NEILL, director of the Environmental Evaluation Group, a watchdog organization. The debris, mostly plutonium-tainted clothing, tools and sludge, will be lowered a distance equal to the height of two World Trade Centers into a rock tomb hollowed from a salt formation. Gradually the walls will collapse, burying the refuse snugly, the EPA hopes, for 10,000 years. That's less than the radioactive half-life of plutonium, so elaborate barriers with Stonehenge-like giant granite monuments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waste Management | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

With 100 points this season, Harvard's shortest skater is second only to the 5'11 Mleczko among the nation's leading scorers. Shewchuk admits that her official height of 5'4 is "generous," but she makes up for her lack of size with her quickness and her ability to light the lamp at a frightening pace...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shoot Early, Shoot Often: Shewchuk Leaves Her Mark | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

Gentle readers: in the past few weeks, many of you have written in, asking to be taught "how to create the perfect fro-yo cone." Some seem to think that the "perfect" cone is some sort of man-sized frozen spiral, a structural wonder whose height is bounded only by the distance from the fro-yo spout to the floor. In today's Dairy Queen world, such an attitude is not surprising--which doesn't make such twisted monstrosities any less apalling. These "comes" are not created so much as they are mindlessly pumped out by the drone-like yogurt...

Author: By Rich D. Ma, ILLUSTRATIONS BY VALERIE A. EDMONSON | Title: HOW TO: SCULPT FRO-YO | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

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