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Brown and Yale are neck-and-neck for second and third place, with scores of 175.5 and 173.5, respectively. Rounding out the top five are Princeton (158.5) and Cornell...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Women Swimmers Lead Easterns | 2/23/1996 | See Source »

...death or to fertility and rejuvenation. Amber may have been used by Egyptians in the mummification process, possibly because it is a powerful desiccant, or drying agent. It was also valued as a medicine. According to Pliny the Elder, Roman peasants used it to cure diseases of the neck and head. In the New World, the Maya burned it as incense to treat a variety of ailments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREVER AMBER | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

Konik hit the dashboard and suffered whiplash and a stiff neck, sources said. Storey had a severely swelled forehead...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: M. Hockey Drops Beanpot; Sunday Car Crash Hurts 5 | 2/6/1996 | See Source »

...Brownshirts rampaging in the 1930s. Have the unholy dead returned to inhabit new bodies? Hasselbach's zombie-like voice, preserved to creepy effect by American co-author Tom Reiss, can almost make you think so. "As he lay on the ground, Frank and I kicked him in the neck, in the stomach, in the face, in the skull...and I was thinking, as I kicked, Sure, his bones are breaking beneath my feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: GENERATION EXECRABLE | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...bewildered outsider, not quite sure whether to be excited or exasperated by the science-fictive surfaces of that alien world. The second is that they find a focus for their mingled fascination and frustration in an unfathomable Japanese love object. The gracious and redeeming delight of Audrey Hepburn's Neck (Pocket Books; 290 pages; $21), a first novel by Alan Brown, an American, is that it turns all the standard tropes--and expectations--on their head by presenting Japan from the inside out, and yet with a sympathetic freshness that most longtime expatriates have long ago abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: AMERICA, FROM RIGHT TO LEFT | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

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