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...your story you noted that "just last week, in the U.S. alone, some 77,000 newborns began the miraculous process of wiring their brains for a lifetime of learning." But what of the countless unborn who are cut off at the outset of their miraculous journey? KARIN L. AUCONE Manchester-by-the Sea, Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 24, 1997 | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...lived one of the most remarkable lives of the 20th century, too implausible for a romance novel or a Hollywood blockbuster. A vivacious English aristocrat, she married Winston Churchill's only son at the outset of World War II, then a legendary Broadway producer and finally one of America's best-known and richest statesmen, before earning her own political stripes, transforming herself into a woman of substance and flourishing anew as the highly respected U.S. ambassador to France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HER BRILLIANT CAREER: PAMELA HARRIMAN (1920-1997) | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

Harvard controlled this unusual three-team dual meet from the outset, finishing first and second in 10 of the 13 events, and sweeping five of them. The Harvard men swept the 400 medley relay, 200 free, 200 individual medley, 500 free, and 200 breaststroke...

Author: By Matthew F. Delmont, | Title: Men's Swimming Dominates Rivals | 2/11/1997 | See Source »

...would switch if the TF showed favoritism, or if I could really tell from the outset that they didn't really care much about the students that were in the section," Gillman says...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: The Good, the Bad, and the Fluent | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...HAVE TO MAKE AN ADMISSION AT THE OUTSET: I AM NOT A TRUE "JEDI." I DON'T claim to know the name of every creature in George Lucas' universe, nor can I recite perfectly all of Greedo's lines (Jabba wa-NEEN-chi ko...Ah, forget it). I can engage in a conversation about the Trilogy with a true fan for only so long before he or she exposes my shortcomings, such as my inability to recite the names of the fat, scruffy pilots in those X-shaped planes (I know, I know, X-wing fighters) who look like they...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: STAR WARS | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

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