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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arcadia" refers to the stately pleasure dome Sidley Park, built by a shrewd but merry widow in Derbyshire, England, in 1809. Its inhabitants include her precocious daughter, Thomasina (Gretchen Cleevely), who is busily deducing the physics of heat without the use of mathematics and to the astonishment of her dashing tutor, Septimus (Conner Trinneer), a craggy landscaper who wishes to redesign Arcadia in a more gothic style, including a hermitage and a rented hermit, and Ezra Chater (Stephen Temperley), a second-rate poet. Oh, and Lord Byron also wanders about the premises, though, sadly, off-stage...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: Asexual British Scholars Run Wild in Stoppard's Uber-Witty 'Arcadia' | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...patients who do not benefit from existing drugs. Researchers hope to come up with compounds that begin acting immediately rather than in a period of weeks. "The Holy Grail of new antidepressant treatment is rapid onset," asserts Dr. John Ascher, a research physician at Glaxo Wellcome in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. "We're talking about medicine that takes effect in just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TARGETING THE BRAIN | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...pretested and scripted. No detail was too small. Rather than amble off Air Force One, Clinton marched; the campaign's most famous line, about "building a bridge to the 21st century," was intoned because "building a bridge to the future" tested less well; Clinton vacationed at Yellowstone National Park because the polls said Americans like outdoorsy vacations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW HE GOT THERE | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

Those living in Cabot, Currier and Pforzheimer Houses should vote at the Peabody Elementary School on Linnaean Street. Apley Court or Claverly Hall residents vote at the Friends Meeting House in Longfellow Park...

Author: By R. ALAN Leo, | Title: Galluccio-Wolf Race Heats Up | 9/17/1996 | See Source »

They've seen him on television, but some in the sparse morning crowd at the Valleyfair! amusement park in Minnesota can't quite place him--the big guy over there by the roller coaster. Maybe he's that football coach, Bill something. Bill Parcells? They aren't sure, and being Midwesterners, several greet him with a cautious "Hiya, coach." Bill Bennett just grins, nods and lets his son Joseph, 7, tow him away through the shimmering heat toward the bumper cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CHAIRMAN OF VIRTUE | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

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