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...That would certainly have given us a little more lift,” said Boston College coach Jerry York of the lost opportunity...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UPSET OF THE YEAR: Men's Hockey 3, Boston College 1 | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...gave us the “Red Book” of 1945 and the Core Curriculum of the 1970s. All of this was supposed to change this year as a set of outstanding essays on general education by members of the Faculty gave the curricular review a much-needed lift just a couple days into the fall semester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reviewing the Situation | 6/8/2005 | See Source »

...pressure is building in the farmland for the FDA to lift its informal moratorium. Some 300 beef cows, 150 dairy cows, 200 pigs and several score of sheep and goats have been cloned in the U.S. Since no one is monitoring the situation, meat from their offspring may well have started trickling onto the market. "There's a lot of pent-up volume," says Scott Davis, founder of ViaGen, a biotech company based in Austin, Texas, that charges $15,000 to clone a cow and $4,000 for a pig. "A clone has to be bred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would You Eat A Clone? | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

...House gawking is a hobby; remodeling, both entertainment and an investment. Folks brag about having bought their home in the '90s the way they used to brag about having bought Microsoft in the '80s. Even if you're not contemplating buying or selling anytime soon, the amazing lift in home values is changing the way we think about the roofs over our heads. Real estate isn't so much about nesting today as it is about nest feathering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's House Party | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

...troubled studio franchise, and you can feel him struggling to reanimate the neurotic dislocations of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman. His effort is not dishonorable, but what it needs, and doesn't have, is a Joker in the deck-some antic human antimatter to give it the giddy lift of perversity that a bunch of impersonal explosions, no matter how well managed, can't supply. -By Richard Schickel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Batman Gets a New Vehicle | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

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