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...inexperience should hamper the Harvard offense, the experience of the defense ought to stifle Columbia's attack. While Harvard returns many of the players that had difficulty stopping the run last year, it now boasts eight seniors in the starting lineup. Moreover, the Crimson has changed its scheme to have the defensive linemen stay with the offensive line a little longer to free up room for the linbackers to plug any holes. The Lions' runners should have difficulty finding daylight...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Sets Sights on Columbia Revenge | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...says Baumohl. "People?s minds are going to be on being safe and protecting their property - not going to the mall." Look for retail sales to dampen considerably for a week or so - and therefore for the month - as folks covering their heads sit on their wallets. Which ought to put the Fed?s mind at ease when September?s numbers come out, just in time for the FOMC board?s next interest-rate sit-down in October. "This still looks like the Goldilocks expansion in place - it?s just right," says Baumohl. And as bears go, Floyd is like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hurricane Floyd and the Fed: Happy Together | 9/15/1999 | See Source »

...outcry in France indeed portends global trouble, it's by no means clear whether it ought to. For all the controversy that GM technology is causing, the fact is that biotech companies have succeeded in dreaming up some extraordinary plants. Monsanto, which produces the hugely popular herbicide Roundup, has made just as big a hit with its line of genetically modified crops that are immune to the Roundup poison--thanks to a gene that company scientists tweezed out of the common petunia and knitted into their food plants. Other GM crops have been designed to include a few scraps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fight | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...parents don't know about polio and diphtheria," says Dr. Natalie Smith of the California Department of Health Services. Nor, she warns, are they always aware that in a shrinking world, polio and other infectious diseases can be "only a plane ride away." These are points that parents surely ought to consider if they're thinking of not getting their kids vaccinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vaccine Jitters | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...movie-star parody in Notting Hill--opening up rich new territories for him to explore. But Outside Providence is full of glorious actor's moments, and may finally owe its success to them. One begins to think, If all these people believe so wholeheartedly in this enterprise, maybe I ought to as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Of God and Doofus Teens | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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