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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professors do not always realize the direct impact that their choice of texts has on students' pocketbooks, Rollert says...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Budgeting 101 | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

...improve the situation, the Coop can educate the Faculty as to the impact of getting their book order forms in on time...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Budgeting 101 | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

...sudden the market impact of the student's purchase becomes much more significant since each student, and not his or her professor, decides whether to buy certain features...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Budgeting 101 | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

...such high speeds--many of them well over 100,000 m.p.h.--that they are usually completely melted and vaporized. But a typical asteroid hits at less than half that speed, and some fragments often survive. So why did this one turn up 5,400 miles away from the Yucatan impact site? Kyte believes it was flung by the explosion high above the atmosphere in a ballistic path that plopped it into the Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chip off the Doomsday Rock | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Since the Pilates program is low impact and does not put undue strain on weight-bearing joints, it is a boon for people over 50. As developed by Joseph Pilates, a German physical therapist and athlete who immigrated to the U.S., the exercises were done on a spring contraption he designed. Modern studios use machines with spring mechanisms adapted from his original apparatus. The classes can be expensive; one-on-one sessions are in the $50-to-$60-an-hour range. A less costly technique based on Pilates' methods can be done on the floor using a mat. The multitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Stretchers | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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