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Dreben served as an advisor and mentor to a generation of Harvard scholars, including Lewis and Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren D. Goldfarb, the department chair of the philosophy department, with whom he co-wrote a book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Philosophy Professor Dies at Age 71 | 7/16/1999 | See Source »

Whoever said that modern technology has taken the human spirit out of adventure? The plight of a woman at the South Pole's Amundsen-Scott research station who has discovered a lump in her breast shows that boldness and bravery are alive and well. Trapped in the hellish cold and ice of the region, which averages 80 degrees below zero during the current Antarctic winter, the woman, who is the doctor of the station, according to the New York Times, has had to deal with the possibility that she may have breast cancer. The Air Force jet crew, which over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Than 'E.R.': High Drama at the South Pole | 7/13/1999 | See Source »

...Portable state-of-the-art medical equipment, sophisticated planes and modern computer links have made this medical mission possible," says TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger, "but it is only the intrepidness of the jet crew and the woman that will make it work." The woman, in particular, faces huge challenges. If a biopsy is called for, says Kluger, "she may have to do things herself that would make anyone skittish." These could include inserting a needle into her own breast tissue, staining the cells and interpreting the results. "These are things that would be hard enough to go through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Than 'E.R.': High Drama at the South Pole | 7/13/1999 | See Source »

Travel agents, by contrast, are fighting for their future in an increasingly hostile environment. Both tour operators and airlines have cut agents' commissions from 10% to 7%. Agencies' core business is also under pressure from the Internet and its ability to reflect modern lifestyles. Until recently, most people splurged on one major vacation. Now many Americans and Europeans are taking several short and often impromptu breaks throughout the year. Travelocity, the world's largest online travel-booking site, advertises last-minute deals, while Microsoft's Expedia travel website offers comprehensive guides for spur-of-the-moment business travelers. One agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Age Of Travel | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...course in the politics of terror, while more than half convinced that there are more and larger conspiracies at work in our world than anyone is admitting. The movie is, indeed, rather good on the erratic way officialdom sometimes overestimates, sometimes underestimates the threat of organized terror in modern life and how that poses a threat to civil comity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Dead-End Street | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

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