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They watched sculls slip by seemingly without effort in the sport that has demanded so much time through the decades from Harvard men and, lately, from Harvard women. As befits a traditional race, the spectators basked in the sun and munched on fried dough, hot dogs and junk food of unknown origin...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: Closing the Door on the Past | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

...Dollar-a-Pound is mostly junk," she admits. "But upstairs is awesome. I've found a lot of my clothes there...

Author: By Carol J. Garvan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Garment District: Heaven in a Pile of Clothes at Cambridge's Vintage Mart | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

WORRY-FREE WEB browsing Have you ever hesitated to fill out an online form for fear you would be deluged with junk e-mail for life? Now enonymous.com offers free downloadable software that ranks the privacy policies of 10,000 websites. As soon as you reach an online form on any of the sites, a window pops up with a rating. One star means the site will disclose your personal information without your explicit permission, while four stars mean your privacy is fully protected. One-star sites include ticketmaster.com and gap.com while qvc.com and bestbuy.com earn top honors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Oct. 18, 1999 | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...that you've bought a zippy new computer, what happens to the old one? Junk machines are becoming a big garbage problem that can't be solved by emptying the Trash icon on your desktop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PCs Pose Serious Trash Problems | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...brings me to another batch of three: The Crash of the Millennium by Ravi Batra, who, as they say, has called five out of the past two recessions; Beat the Millennium Crash by Jake Bernstein; and Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Dutch tulip bulbs to junk bonds) by Edward Chancellor. The bubble theories in these books at the very least provide some counterweight to the sky's-the-limit authors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dow 1,000,000 | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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