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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...major topics tackled was the safe community meetings first-years are required to attend. The meetings, which involve about 500 students in a Science Center auditorium, include presentations about rape...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coalition Meets With Administrators | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

Charest pointed to Canada's more centralized political system and more courteous attitudes as major differences between the countries...

Author: By Graeme C. A. wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Quebec Politician Rails Against Separatism | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...courted by Princeton and Stanford Universities as well as the University of Illinois, said the major draws of Harvard were its students and facilities, particularly the center for mesoscale structures that is currently in planning stages...

Author: By Graeme C. A. wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hau Receives Tenure; Physics Professor Slowed Light | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

...Pakistani military ? the U.S. explicitly warned against the military seizing power only three weeks ago." Rhetoric aside, however, a military government may be cautious about dramatically changing Pakistan?s foreign relations. Even if they?re more defiant of Washington, Pakistan?s generals remain fairly beholden to their other major backer, Beijing. It was China?s refusal to support the Kashmir incursion that may ultimately have persuaded the Pakistani generals that they had no choice but to accept Nawaz?s order to retreat. "And despite some sympathy for Islamic fundamentalism among junior officers, the military retains its role as a modernizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pakistan, Army Shows Who's the Real Boss | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

BONING UP Don't think you're immune to osteoporosis just because you're a guy. Two million American men have the bone-thinning ailment, and 3 million more may be at risk. Now here's some help: the first major study on men with osteoporosis shows that Fosamax--a nonhormonal drug that helps treat the disease in postmenopausal women--also works in men. The bone density of men who took it increased 7% regardless of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Oct. 11, 1999 | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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