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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Lions, sharing the third place last season with the Crimson, return all five starters including All-Ivy selection Craig Austin. Brown seeks to make a giant leap behind arguably the two best returning players in the league from last season...

Author: By Andy C. Poon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Basketball Ivy League Preview | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...course, there are challenges beyond verb conjugation. With entrepreneurs rushing to cash in on the student trade, the government warns buyers to check references. Then, too, visitors must learn to dodge Quito's unforgiving drivers, leap on buses that rarely seem to stop and make do with unreliable heat and hot water. Waldemar Steuer, 59, a retired German mining engineer who took a three-week course this fall, found one solution for the 45[degrees]F nights: he slept in his suit with four blankets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Exploring Espanol | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...telescope on Earth saw its power boosted a hundredfold essentially overnight. That kept the scientists happy only for a while, however, and everyone agreed that telescopes needed some sort of radical new design. Unfortunately, says Matt Mountain, director of the Gemini Observatory, "nobody knew how to make the conceptual leap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Hubble | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...steal down to the dining hall. There, I eat as fast as I can so that I can hurry back upstairs and start staring, again. I stare all day long. Every once in a while, though, my staring is interrupted and then, in a fit of inspiration, my hands leap to the keyboard, and I type. This lasts for a few minutes. When I'm done, for a moment, there is a feeling. I won't call it satisfaction, but its is something vaguely like that. Then the feeling passes, and I begin staring again...

Author: By J.p. Rollert, | Title: A Note From the Underground | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

...alley, a white jeep with smoky windows rumbles by, and the MS boys leap up. The 18 have been driving around the neighborhood in a similar white jeep, smashing in doors of MS houses and spraying everybody inside, grandmothers and children, with Uzis. Isidra Benegas, the mother of the crackhead, curses, "These deportees from the U.S. are to blame. They've brought the crack and the killing." A flicker of guilt crosses Cesar's face. He belonged to an MS chapter in Eagle Pass, Texas, before he was deported back to Honduras. "It's either live in the gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gang-Bangers: A Deadly U.S. Export | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

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