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...when the temperature is 40 below. Of course, when you finally get to the laundry room, you find that the one deranged person who woke up before ten to do his laundry has used up all of the machines. Rather than brave the cold a second time, you opt to wait for the washer with six minutes left on its timer, and find out that a washer with six minutes left on the display takes about as long as a football game with six minutes left on the clock...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, | Title: Editorial Notebook: The Saturday Morning Ordeal | 2/9/2000 | See Source »

...Moschello says that the next step will be to meet directly with UHS and ask them to send a letter to all incoming students explaining the policy so that they can opt out of contributing to abortions before entering Harvard...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman and Eugenia V. Levenson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: The Silent Majority: Harvard's Unusually Quiet Debate About Abortion | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

...their most sensitive spots," says Elmer-DeWitt. "Setting up an ISP connection is something people want to do only once." And while AOL (which has announced a planned merger with Time Warner, the parent company of TIME Daily) can take comfort in the fact that users can opt out of AOL domination by answering "no" to the set-up query, if this case has teeth, such a small concession won't be enough to quell lawyers' lust for dollars - or the public's appetite for seeing an Internet behemoth squirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Users Say AOL 5.0 Deep-Sixes Hard Drives | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

Although official treatment of the religious in China has greatly improved in the last two decades, it remains profoundly objectionable. The Chinese government has tried to co-opt religion, especially the Christian churches, by creating state-sanctioned churches that obey official dictates and regulations...

Author: By Charles C. Desimone, | Title: Stop China's Religious Persecution | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...TRINLEY DORJE, 14, one of Tibetan Buddhism's highest reincarnated lamas; in an eight-day trek that began with climbing out his bedroom window while Chinese guards slept and escaping from Tibet over the Himalayas to Dharamsala, India. His departure is a blow to China's attempts to co-opt the Tibetan faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 17, 2000 | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

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