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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news it makes. The old guard--Roger Landry, Sumner Anderson, and company--were walking controversies. The spoke and the campus would go into a frenzy or at least plan an eat-in. Brigette/id Kerrigan could stir up acrimonious polemics about how her name should be spelled and provoke a near-insurrection with the well-timed wave of a flag...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Gore Says It All | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

...acting director of the troubled Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS), was the author of a confidential memo that revealed the problems in the understaffed, underfunded office. On Thursday, Dean of the Faculty JEREMY R. KNOWLES (not pictured) promised that funding for HASCS would be increased in "the near future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSMAKERS | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

...same number of graduates. In fact, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported last year that one quarter of new doctors reported difficulties finding a job after their internships were completed. Much of the reason for this is that most doctors want to live in or near big cities, not in the vast rural sections of the country that are chronically short on good medical care. So the real problem is not applications but distribution. You can lead a kid to med school, but you can't make him practice in South Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Fewer Students Want to Play Doctor | 9/2/1999 | See Source »

...quite a few factors. While the Princeton research advances our understanding of the areas of the brain that help form "declarative" or conscious memories, there are other kinds of memory that are governed by different parts of the brain. The more likely applications, at least in the near future, are in therapies for degenerative brain diseases such as Alzheimer's. For now, anyway, that's smart enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ascent of Mouse | 9/1/1999 | See Source »

...staggering," he admits. Equally staggering are the profits--$5 million last year--derived from slapping the images from Kinkade's paintings onto everything from calendars to table lamps. The merchandising machine will go into overdrive this winter when construction is scheduled to begin on Kinkade-inspired houses near Sacramento, Calif. Says Frank Sisser, publisher of the trade magazine U.S. Art: "The man is a consummate marketer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Of Selling Kitsch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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