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...highlight of the evening. The meat was clearly of the highest quality, its richness offset by a piquant dribble of mustard and several capers. It should, perhaps, become a proper appetizer—two bites is simply not enough. Even my dining companion, an occasionally cautious eater, became an instant convert to the uncooked lifestyle...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stairway to Heaven | 2/6/2003 | See Source »

...that change colors to match the environment, vests and glasses with embedded computers, and electrospun clothing. The last involves a process in which a solution is charged with high-voltage electricity and spun, like cotton candy, onto a form. Military scientists want to use the process to custom-make instant haz-mat suits by spraying sealants onto clothing. But the prospects for nonwoven, seamless civilian clothing are tantalizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape Of Things To Come | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

...Sharks win 122-108, and for an instant Yao Ming is just a memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Be Ming | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

Kamm gives the Kennedy School instant prestige in a field where it hadn’t previously had an overwhelming presence...

Author: By Yingzhen Zhang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Nabs NYU Philosopher | 1/30/2003 | See Source »

After weeks of dampening expectations for "smoking gun" evidence against Iraq, the Bush administration is now teeing up an "Adlai Stevenson moment." That's diplomat-speak for the instant in which a U.S. official trumps all naysayers at the United Nations by hauling out graphic, incontrovertible evidence that its enemy is lying. Stevenson, as President John F. Kennedy's UN ambassador in 1962, slam-dunked the Soviets during a heated Security Council debate by producing satellite photographs that disproved Moscow's denials that missiles had been stationed in Cuba. Secretary of State Colin Powell hopes to produce a similar effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powell to Go for Broke at the UN | 1/29/2003 | See Source »

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