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...South African inquiry has lifted the lid on a multimillion-dollar betting racket that has offered large amounts of cash to players who'll ensure that a favored team will lose a game, or simply that those players will perform below par. Cronje, who claims to have been led into the scheme by "Satan," is unlikely ever again to don his country's cap, and he may well have helped end the careers of some of his most promising players. The financial scandal may in fact be a reflection of changes in the game over the past three decades during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Cricket Will Survive the Shock of Scandal | 6/9/2000 | See Source »

...Cambridge city politics, disagreement over the way the buildings can or should be used and the several other multimillion-dollar construction projects which teh University is already juggling, the fate of these ill-suited buildings remains...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dilemma on Walker Street | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...some administrators are less optimistic. With the many other projects that the FAS has on its plate--including the Knafel Center, an addition to the Science Center and a Physical Sciences building--Harvard may not get around to the Jordans for a few years. "There are lots of multimillion dollar projects in the FAS," Knowles says. "I'm afraid I don't know exactly where the planning is on the Jordans at this point...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dilemma on Walker Street | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...suggesting that today's multimillion dollar CT-scan machines are poorly maintained or that they routinely bathe you in excessive amounts of radiation. The issues are more subtle than that. We all have the sense that CT scans give you incredibly precise images that illuminate every nook and cranny of your body. But the truth is that CT scans, like MRIS, ultrasounds or other types of medical imaging, still require interpretation by radiologists who have trained for at least six years to figure out what those patches of light and dark mean. Otherwise, as Dr. Alec Megibow of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scan or Scam? | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...colonial-era building once used as a police storeroom and now renovated with state-of-the-art lighting and sleek marble and wood walls is also part of a challenge by the country's largest commercial city to Beijing for the title of China's cultural capital. The multimillion-dollar Shanghai Art Museum, which houses traditional and contemporary Chinese paintings, was only the latest major new public building in a spree that has transformed the coastal megalopolis. Just two years ago, the visiting Cleveland Orchestra had to play in a Shanghai gymnasium because there was no suitable auditorium. But today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing and Shanghai: The Tale Of Two Cities | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

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