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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because of the arcane traffic base that was Old Cambridge, one-way streets, odd angles, and bumpy, pothole-prone roads abound. All of these anomalies manifest themselves on the return trip. You have to drive into and out of Somerville, unaided by traffic lights at precarious corners, just to get back to Massachusetts Avenue...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Don't Leave Home--If You're Not in a Tank | 8/10/1993 | See Source »

...skinned Cristiano is one of the lucky ones. After seven years on the streets, he moved to a shelter run by the Sao Martinho Aid Society. His room is small but clean. There is a television in the hall and food downstairs in the kitchen. The shelter kids work odd jobs during the day and go to school at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rio's Dead End Kids | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...There are a lot of causes...especially the trend towards early specialization," said Wallin, a former director of general programs at the National Endowment of the Humanities. "I think it's very odd to [see] this at a time when we are competing around the world...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Professors Group Will Rate Colleges | 8/6/1993 | See Source »

...must seem odd to the duck and deer populations that Americans have paid more than $255 million this summer for the experience of being prey. In Jurassic Park we had the supreme thrill of being hunted for food by creatures far larger, faster, and -- counting teeth and claws -- better armed than we are. With the raptors closing in, we saw how vulnerable the human body is -- no claws, no exoskeleton, no blinding poison sprays. Take away our guns and high-voltage fences and we are, from a typical predator perspective, tasty mounds of unwrapped meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth of Man As Hunter | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

Working on a holiday may not seem odd for a woman who has spent many New Year's weekends talking policy and trading fax numbers with new friends at the Renaissance Weekend retreats for the well-connected on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Policy Wonks in Paradise | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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