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...chance that he does decide to make a go of it this year, Time Present, Time Past seems unlikely to jump-start a Bradley steamroller. Ever the gentleman, he writes about his Senate colleagues so blandly that even North Carolina's Jesse Helms, a bitter ideological foe, gets praised for being "courtly." Bradley is fiercely proud of his German and Scotch-Irish forebears, but in his tepid prose they come across as proto-suburbanites rather than daring pioneers...
DIED. DICK STEINBERG, 60, general manager of football's New York Jets, who stood out for his lack of interest in standing out while engineering championship teams for the L.A. Rams and the New England Patriots and struggling to jump-start the Jets; from stomach cancer; in Rockville Centre, New York...
According to Hahnemann, the vigorous shaking transferred the "spiritlike" essence of the medicine to the solvent. And each successive shaking "potentized" the solution even further. Hahnemann believed that the extremely dilute solution, when taken by a patient, would jump-start the body's dormant "vital force" to combat illness. Hahnemann's Law of Infinitesimals--his belief that the more a remedy is diluted, the stronger its effect--is homeopathy's second major tenet...
...anti-computer virus program but is itself an electronic Ebola. Needless to say, Angela must be deleted before she can delete it. "There are some logical jump cuts in 'The Net's' narrative," saysTIME's Richard Schickel. But director Irwin Winkler has a confident sense of pacing and scale and, in Bullock, "an actress whose gumption and vulnerability can penetrate any plastic pocket protector and jump-start the most shriveled hacker's heart beneath...
...offers a jump-start in artistic networkingfor the program participants. "We also hope thatthey will make contacts with students, faculty andadministrators which are involved in the arts atHarvard, so that they know who to talk to whenthey get here. They'll have contacts that they'vealready made," said Marian A. Myszkowski,coordinator of student and public programs atHUAM...