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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Let’s Go, says that “we really knew we were dealing with a pro in Tali when, during one of our researcher training meetings during the spring, she advocated hooking up with a random local on the first night in a country as a method of ‘acclimatizing to new cultures...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Globetrotter | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

...become limited, but the company could become a profitable boutique video-game brand that caters to children, newcomers and enthusiasts. In fact, game analyst Hisakazu Hirabayashi insists that scenario has already happened. "Since around 2000, Nintendo was no longer a member of the video-game industry. Its philosophy and method are fundamentally different from the other console and software companies. It's not a loser only because it's taken itself out of the race." Every kid who's booted up Super Mario for the first time knows what happens when you run out of lives and can't secure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Console Wars: Game On | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

Depending on the method used, emergency contraception can reduce a woman’s risk of becoming pregnant from a single act of intercourse by between 75 and 99 percent. It works similarly to regular birth control pills; it contains the same hormones and likewise prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg. If fertilization has already occurred, the hormones prevent the egg from implanting into the uterus—which is the medical definition of pregnancy. Although research over the past 30 years has shown that the morning-after pill is safe and effective, the many barriers to obtaining...

Author: By Lia C. Larson, | Title: Policy Prescription | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...superstardom doesn’t begin by vacantly staring at your cube, he warns. “Go online and type in ‘beginner’s solutions,’” Camann advises. He claims there’s “no method that is secret,” and that practice is essential to improving Rubix prowess. If “Magic of Numbers” makes you squirm, don’t ditch that Cube yet. Camann says that “a couple of competitors say that they were never good...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Straight As, Cubed | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

DIED. LOTTE BERK, 90, German-born dancer who created a body-conditioning program based on a hybrid of yoga, dance and calisthenics; in Hungerford, England. The Lotte Berk method--with its sometimes suggestive positions and names (e.g., the Prostitute)--attracted a cult following among women in swinging 1960s London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 1, 2003 | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

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