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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Project coordinators planned the building's newlook with the Cambridge Historical Commission inorder to ensure that the structure did not loseits historical character in the process of theface-lift...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CSB Unveils Renovated Harvard Square Shops | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...Universal Declaration of Human Rights and necessary to a free society. Human rights groups in oppressive nations are frequent users of strong encryption, and these groups could not long survive if they were forced to give their government an electronic key. Soon Congress will consider two bills which would lift the export bans and prevent governmental key escrow; let's hope that Congress will be motivated more by a respect for personal freedoms than by fear of their misuse. Stephen E. Sachs '02, a Crimson editor, lives in Grays Hall...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Big Brother Wants a Decoder Ring | 4/14/1999 | See Source »

...Major League Baseball isn't going to lift its ban, it should at least find some means of sparing its most prolific hitter the indignity of battling wrestlers while dressed in a chicken suit...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: Charlie Hustle Gets A Body-Slam | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

When published aeronautical data turned out to be unreliable, the Wright brothers built their own wind tunnel to test airfoils and measure empirically how to lift a flying machine into the sky. They were the first to discover that a long, narrow wing shape was the ideal architecture of flight. They figured out how to move the vehicle freely, not just across land, but up and down on a cushion of air. They built a forward elevator to control the pitch of their craft as it nosed up and down. They fashioned a pair of twin rudders in back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviators: THE WRIGHT BROTHERS | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 sec. after lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century of Science | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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