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Welcome to the NASCAR Nation, where a trip to the market may soon seem like two laps in the Cracker Barrel 500. Shifrin says he's done $1 million in sales this year and has 160 cars on the road draped in the same clear-vinyl ads you see on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would You Wrap Your Car in an Ad for $400? | 7/17/2000 | See Source »

But if the hours and hours of laps were a good hurt, continually losing to UMass was the opposite. The Minutewomen, the top-ranked team in the East, would prove to be the Crimson's nemesis throughout the season. UMass swept its five meetings with Harvard, including an 8-4...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Water Polo Teams Take Big Strides | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

The very large buck that is responsibility for the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade last May has stopped, and landed square in the laps of seven CIA managers. The toll: One unnamed senior official fired and six others reprimanded by CIA director George Tenet for their roles. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the CIA, a Case of Heads Must Roll? | 4/9/2000 | See Source »

"It wasn't a traditional start, because it was a 160 meter track instead of a 200 meter track--we had to do two-and-a-half laps," McGraw said. "At the start there were no blocks, so we had to break right away. I had to fight a lot...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Track Teams Fare Well at Millrose Games, Harvard Select | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

We stop. Four people are standing around a white, early-'70s Volvo. They're out of gas; can we help? Yes, yes, we say, of course. They want to siphon from our tank. They have an actual siphon right there. We don't have enough, we say, noticing that we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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