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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to think on anyone else's schedule next year," Allen says. She talks of working at some irregular menial job and seems almost wistful when suggesting she'd like to wait tables...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Making Her Own Schedule, Setting Her Own Pace | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...University of Minnesota researchers in a report in the journal Nature. After examining whisker patterns on 920 lions, they concluded that males whose black dots in the topmost row of whiskers line up evenly tended to have longer lives than lions whose spots are arranged in a more irregular fashion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotting Good Genes | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Michelle C. Sullivan '96 says that when she was given a electrocardiogram for a possible irregular heartbeat, she was promised test results the next day. But UHS never called. After two weeks, she went in and got the results herself, but the experience left a lasting impression...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer and Joe Mathews, S | Title: A Search for Faster Access | 4/20/1993 | See Source »

...first big mistake was failing to settle on a place and time. The front , curtain's stylized glimpse of Manhattan evokes the '40s-ish nostalgia of Guys and Dolls, while the main set, a dark framework strewn with irregular cutout boxes of vivid color, recalls the '60s -- and, more precisely, Simon's musical hit Sweet Charity. A carousel-like jungle gym in Day-Glo tones suggests the '70s, as do the male lead's fixations on meditation and macrobiotics. The sexual precocity of the female lead's 12-year-old daughter feels contemporary. Yet the sonorous music and often sentimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mishmash Of a Musical | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF NEXT YEAR'S WINter were 100 degrees colder than normal or the summer 150 degrees warmer. Such swings would wipe out animals and plants; in fact, if Earth's climate were that irregular, life might never have arisen. But the seasons are relatively stable because Earth's axis of rotation stays at a constant 23 degrees tilt from the vertical. In July, for example, the sunward-leaning northern hemisphere experiences summer while the southern hemisphere, angled away from the sun, has winter. Six months later, the opposite is true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lunar Mission | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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