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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whatever the ultimate consequences of population growth may be, it is important to remember the danger of treating statistics as mere numbers. Regardless of the millennial hoopla that Y6B will doubtless create, its cumulative environmental, economic, and humanitarian effects are what we can ill afford to forget...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: 6,000,000,001: A Population Odyssey | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

Yale (2-3, 1-1) challenged and had a quality scoring chance late in the second, but an ill-timed header resulted in an easy save for freshman goalkeeper Cheryl Gunther, who collected her first shutout of the season...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Soccer Pulls Off 1-0 Win at Yale | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...trusted to tell the truth when it testifies against members of the Waco cult? Juries are expected to assume the honesty of the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies. The repeated lies of the FBI in Waco have made its credibility go up in smoke. ROBERT NEMOYER Bridgeview, Ill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1999 | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...took years for Oregonians to settle the prickly question of whether doctors should be able to help people kill themselves. But a majority of the state's voters made clear--twice--that they favor physician-assisted suicides, at least in the limited cases of terminally ill people expected to live less than six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painful Debate | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...open in early October. The exhibit, which drew more than 300,000 visitors during its stint in London, features the familiar animal-in-formaldehyde installations by consummate shockmeister Damien Hirst, as well as works by Chris Ofili, Marcus Harvey and 39 others. Visitors who make it past Hirst?s ill-fated animals will never mistake this show for an Impressionist retrospective: Ofili?s work "The Holy Virgin Mary" features a religious icon strategically smeared with elephant dung. Harvey?s piece "Myra" consistently evokes protest wherever it is shown; the painting uses children?s handprints to depict infamous child murderer Myra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mayor Rudy's Rant: No Dead Pigs in My Museum! | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

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