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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...project's main goal, according to Beth S. Brainard, communications and public information director for the Harvard College Library, is to ensure a longer shelf life and increased security for the library's collections...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CAUTION: CONSTRUCTION IN PROGRESS | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...family is the main source of satisfaction in my life," Rosen says. "I'm better at being a dad than anything else...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Right: As an Undergrad, Rosen Protested the Protestors | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

...Toughman Championship Series, a program that will pit real-life paunchy men against each other in purportedly unscripted boxing matches. Since January, TNN has offered RollerJam, a venue for voluptuous women in Lycra to go at one another on Rollerblades. Dancing women without Rollerblades--or much clothing--are the main attraction on Happy Hour, a relatively innocuous, if boring, hourlong USA variety show that made its debut in April, with Frank Zappa's sons Dweezil and Ahmet as its hosts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Catering to Cable Guys | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...people delighted the great realist. He wrote to James Tissot, a fellow painter, enthusiastically about "villas with columns in different styles...negroes in old clothes...rosy white children in black arms, charabancs or omnibuses drawn by mules, the tall funnels of the steamboats towering at the end of the main street... Everything is beautiful in this world of people." But, he typically added, one Paris laundress with bare arms "is worth it all for such a pronounced Parisian as I am." In any case the outdoor glare pained his weakening eyes, which is why all his paintings from New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Impressionist Abroad | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

WHAT'S THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR CHINESE ARCHRIVALS? Lindsay: "We're both long and tall [for divers]. They are really short. They can spin really fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Profiles | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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