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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to go a step further and invest in backup hardware such as a Zip drive. Lastly, resolve to install an anti-virus program. They are freely available on the Harvard network and can save you much pain...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: New Year's Tips From TechTalk | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

...pain for several reasons," he says. "First, you risk having your agent exposed. Second, who's gonna sell to a white guy standing in line at a crack house? So you get some piper [crack addict] or some whore to make the buy. Or you just pinch someone coming out of the house and find out who's in the place, whether they're armed, and where the dope is. Then you go in. It's illegal that way, but then you go and get a warrant later [and falsify the report], saying you made the buy yourself." Or, adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW COPS GO BAD | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...been, for years--white guilt and black pain colluding to forget. But periodically the zeitgeist erupts with flashbacks to a tragedy whose costs are still exacted on the street corners of America, at water coolers, in classrooms, along Sunday pews. Now is such a time. Last month in New Orleans, the name of George Washington, a former slave owner, was removed from a school. This week Amistad, Steven Spielberg's epic about a famous 1839 slave revolt, premieres. Currently in repertory at the Chicago Lyric Opera is Anthony Davis' opera, also titled Amistad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUTURING THE WOUNDS | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...version of You Light Up My Life was the '70s' top-selling single) and, from 1978 to 1982, served as Lieutenant Governor of California--has struck country gold on his Curb label with Tim McGraw (Indian Outlaw) and ridden Rimes to multiplatinum. Curb sees the payoff beyond the pain: "If a record is different, it's going to be harder to get it played. But you get a bigger return when you get it played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CAN GARTH SAVE COUNTRY? | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Face it: no matter how stunning the view, the blinding glare of winter sun on a ski slope or in an office building can be a pain. That's why Research Frontiers thinks its "smart glass," which lets people electronically control the light that shines through windows, is such a bright idea. By next year, the Woodbury, N.Y., firm's high-tech tinting should be incorporated into ski goggles, car sunroofs, skylights and, of course, windows. In homes, it could help regulate temperature and conserve energy, something even Mr. Sunshine would approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Dec. 15, 1997 | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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