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...waves to the milling crowd as she pumps the pedals of a unicycle with an oversize counterweight fixed beneath. As she tools back and forth along a thin cable strung 19 ft. above the ground, her friends wait for a chance to take a spin. Meanwhile they get an impromptu physics lesson from a guide on how the counterweight and gravity keep the unstable vehicle in equilibrium and prevent their friend from tumbling over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kingdom Of Learning | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

This dinner, however, attracted no students outside of the two in charge of "Bill Bradley Week." It thus became what Harvard Students for Bill Bradley coordinator Luke P. McLoughlin '00 called an impromptu "policy meeting...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Bill Bradley Week' Promises Fun and Games | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...cowboy coloring book." I was encouraged, to say the least, that America had given this exemplar of the strenuous life an untainted character worthy of his children's admiration (I never saw his son without a red John Wayne neckerchief). But then Christoph sang impromptu of the "Wicki-wicki Wild Wild West," paraphrasing Will Smith and breaking my heart...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: The American Invasion | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

...first experience with theatre came early, during a summer in a small community in upstate New York, where she participated in impromptu theatre...

Author: By Zachary R. Mider, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "Vinny" Star Marisa Tomei Advises Aspiring Actors | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...much would you pay never to see another talking frog or battery-powered bunny again? To program your own all-Luke Perry channel? To add impromptu bathroom breaks to live broadcasts? Replay Networks and TiVo, creators of new digital-TV recording devices, are popping the question, working to persuade you to add yet another cube to the towering ziggurat of entertainment--cable box, VCR, DVD and video-game player--on your TV table. They say their new gadgets could just change TV itself in the process, a possibility that has the networks more than a little nervous. Lawyers have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Come PVRs | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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