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BOSTON--A new appliance that can chill beer, freeze ice cream and cook pizza has college students clamoring, and the inventor, a former computer sales agent, crossing his fingers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Talented Gadget Hits Market | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

...ways, the final clubs set the tone for a lot of the attitudes towards women. Coming to the most prestigious learning institution in the nation, you might think that acquaintance and date rape wouldn't be problems here. These are "Harvard Men," after all. But then, so was the inventor of napalm...

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: Cope With the Egos | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...sick idea came to inventor Tom Berquist three years ago during a discussion of why kids enjoy revolting things. Says he: "I think they get more control over their environment. The more the parents scream, the more the kids want the candy." Parents are not too keen on the promotional campaign either. Appearing at radio stations around the country to hand out free samples to fans is the Boogerman: an actor costumed as a 6-ft.-tall, green, slimy . . . Oh, yech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFECTIONS: Only a Kid Can Love It | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...that Exxon's sluggish initial response to the Alaskan accident was partly the result of another corporate lapse: the reduction of its spill-management staff during cost cutting in the mid-1980s. The company lost nine of its top environmental and spill-control officers, including scientist G.P. Canevari, the inventor of Corexit 9527, a commonly used oil-slick dispersant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Oil Slick Trips Up Exxon | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...infection that started after he accidentally stabbed himself in the foot with the cane he was using to conduct his music). The anniversary-loving French authorities decided to join with those in Lully's native Italy to finance a hearing for the man who is considered the virtual inventor of French opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Blooms in Brooklyn | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

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