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...fifth-grader in San Diego County decided to figure out how far a ball would travel if it rolled down a ramp at a steady 5 ft. per sec. for a year (assuming that friction on the shallow incline counteracted the acceleration of gravity.) His work page is a maze of multiplication, punctuated by arrows explaining things like "Here I found out how many seconds there are in a year." His final answer -- 29,863 miles and 1,108.8 yds. -- is accompanied by a proud statement: "I chose this paper because it's a problem I created and solved myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Examining The Big Picture | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

...HOSPITAL IN BOSTON lies a baby girl who was born before her time -- three months early, weighing less than 3 lbs. Her tiny body is entangled in a maze of wires and tubes that monitor her vital signs and bring her food and medicine. Every so often she shakes uncontrollably for a few moments -- a legacy of the nerve-system damage that occurred when she suffered a shortfall of blood and oxygen just before birth. Between these seizures, she is unusually quiet and lethargic, lying on her side with one arm draped across her chest and the other bent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crack Kids: Innocent Victims | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...played Harvard indoors, they would like us'. --Pacific Coach Bill Maze...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netwomen Go 2-2 Over Promising Spring Break | 4/2/1991 | See Source »

...played Harvard indoors, they would kill us," Pacific Coach Bill Maze said...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netwomen Go 2-2 Over Promising Spring Break | 4/2/1991 | See Source »

...briefings and pool reports, found the enemy, and it was Arabic street signs in Riyadh. Amid a profusion of expressways, he drove around for two hours. "The next time I got lost," he noted ruefully, "I flagged a taxi and paid the driver to lead me out of the maze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Mar. 11, 1991 | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

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