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...loss of sportsmanship, work ethic and basic respect at the player level. In order to remain a fan over the past few years, I have concentrated on the game itself and avoided the surrounding drama. Now, however, there is no place to avert my eyes, for the nastiest scene yet has taken place right on the playing field. JULIA VINSON Marietta, Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 4, 1996 | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...Johnson, has drawn attention far beyond this sparsely populated state. The Democrats have long seen it as their best chance of unseating a Republican Senator and a virtual must win if they are to retake the Senate. But the race is turning out to be among the year's nastiest. And because of a combination of huge war chests and cheap media markets, the bitterness is being played out in ads that may reach record levels of saturation for a statewide race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUD ON THE PRAIRIE | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

Less risky bugs are studied in the biosafety-level 1 (BSL1), 2 and 3 labs. The nastiest microorganisms, though, are in BSL4. The entire lab is kept at negative air pressure, so if a leak somehow develops, air will flow in rather than out. Researchers generally work in pairs; if one is inadvertently exposed to a microbe, the other can take action. They wear airtight suits hooked directly to a source of clean air. There is no eating, drinking or even going to the bathroom anywhere within BSL4. On the way out, everyone takes a chemical decontamination shower inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUERRILLA WARFARE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...Despite a gratuitous appearance by that nastiest of Brits Emma Thompson, this is a phenomenal film. Really, isn't that enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMING SOON TO HARVARD | 7/2/1996 | See Source »

...scouts as far away as Denmark and Brazil. The slogan for his bulletin board came from closer to home, however. He was inspired by a visit to Disneyland, where a sign outside proclaims it THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH. His computer system came to be known as "the nastiest place on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Thomas: THE MARQUIS DE CYBERSPACE | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

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