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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than a $75 subsidy paid for by each of Harvard's students in order to distort the free market, force students to trek to Loker Commons in the snow and sleet [so as not to lose the $75 allotment which their tuition purchased], and alter their normal consumption choices. Alas, say goodbye to Tommy's. Pinocchio's and Bartley's Burger Cottage. Pretty soon we will all have to eat in an ugly tan basement with no windows. And we wanted more choices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Crimson Cash' Is Hardly a Gift | 1/12/1996 | See Source »

While Perkins agrees with Wechsler that attention must be paid to the social influences affecting students, he has discovered that students grossly misperceive the amount that an average student should drink. That is, students assume that normal drinking levels are higher than what each individual would prefer. So the definition of moderate drinking does not only vary in regard to particular students' relationship with drinking, but individual students hold inaccurate assumptions about moderating their own behavior...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: How to Fight Binge Drinking | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...merely revealed by light but constructed by it. Even his darks shine. The late 17th century in Holland was an age of the eye: optics was a ruling scientific interest, and the telescope and microscope were opening tracts of nature that up till then had been below or beyond normal sight. As an aid to painting his View of Delft, Vermeer probably used the camera obscura--a box with a lens that captures the image of a scene on ground glass. It may be that the circles of confusion--the luminous spots caused by imperfections of the lens--gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: DUTCH TREAT | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...regular car. The acceleration is good, and it handles the same. But it's a bit of a stretch to say, as GM claims, that it's quieter than a regular car. At startup and slow speeds, that's certainly true. The electric motor is almost silent. But at normal driving speeds, most of the noise you hear in a car comes from the road and wind, so it sounds pretty much the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Wheel: | 1/5/1996 | See Source »

...LEAN PROTEIN Researchers, knowing that a defective gene causes mice to grow fat, purified the protein produced by the normal gene, injected it into plump mice and turned them into trim little rodents. Now scientists want to know if that compound, called leptin, will work on people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of 1995: SCIENCE | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

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