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...Times are changed with him who marries," quoth Robert Louis Stevenson. There are no more bypath meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Harvard's Terms of Engagement | 4/23/1991 | See Source »

...morning, when the temperatures are cooler. Because nerve gases like Sarin and Tabun disperse within minutes or, if enhanced with oil thickeners, within hours, Saddam is expected to lob these agents close to the front lines. He is likely to aim persistent toxins like mustard gas, which linger for days, deeper into allied ranks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons: Coping with Chemicals | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

Last Saturday they buried Thom Jenkins beneath the soaring pines of California's Sierra Nevada. As silence again envelops Dudley Cemetery, echoes of a U.S. Navy chaplain's words linger: "Thomas Allen Jenkins, your sacrifice will not be forgotten. Your courage stands as a beacon of liberty. You exemplify the U.S. Marine Corps motto, 'Semper Fidelis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home Front: War's Real Cost | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...guiding their technological development by directing investments in science, medicine, agriculture and the arts. But playing the Almighty, I discover, is complicated -- and dangerous. Skimp on medical research, and your SimEarthlings are pestered by plagues. Cut back in the philosophy department, and wars break out. Let the master race linger too long in the industrial age, and the planet is choked with pollution. If, on the other hand, you steer your beings adroitly toward the ages of information and nanotechnology (molecule building), they will spontaneously load themselves into tiny spacecraft, turn the earth into a wildlife preserve and take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Day I Played God | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...context of the growing Civil Rights movement. But to its credit, this play also explores Hansberry's life from feminist and artistic perspectives. Although director Katrina Merritt's staging is conventional, the intriguing script and powerful cast ensure that our interest in Hansberry and the works she created will linger after the lights have faded...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Black C.A.S.T Production Realizes Ideal of `Young, Gifted and Black' | 12/7/1990 | See Source »

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