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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...faced with the opportunity to participate, he preferred a passing grade on thermodynamics to an arrest for throwing bricks at policemen. And, thus, in history’s eyes my father is only an observer; the only interest researchers have in his college experience is for background material to pepper their accounts of the 1968 incident. The similarities between my father’s decision and my own make me wonder: Will someone call me 30 years from now asking me what it was like to watch my peers battle the administration...

Author: By Nikki Usher, | Title: Watching, not Making, Harvard History | 4/24/2001 | See Source »

...PEPPER-SPRAY DISPENSERS From either side of the truck, handy blasters propel burning pepper spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not For A Joyride | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...each drug. But what about the drugs that didn't make the list? Courtwright not only emphasizes the reasons why the larger-scale drugs became globalized, but also why the others remain local and regional commodities to this day. Apparently drugs such as kava, a beverage made from a pepper root in the Pacific Islands, and qat, a leaf product that is generally chewed, never caught on because of the former's taste of "chalk and body sweat" and the latter's tendency to cause constipation and nausea. Drug users were willing to make sacrifices for the high...

Author: By Laura Dichtel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Forbidden Fruit: A Cultural Study of Drugs | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...listened to the previous groups intently while sitting, get up to get down. As a new addition to the band, Scheuer's rockstar persona jives well with his company and adds to FinkFankFunk's polished quality. As soon as the band began its cover of Red Hot Chili Pepper's "Aeroplane," it had the audience dancing on their feet...

Author: By Andrew D. Goulet, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Project Health Gets its Groove On: FinkFankFunk at Loker Commons | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...terms to reject any revised numbers. There is no evidence, the bureau's director told Evans, that adjusted figures would be any more accurate than the original numbers. Evans' final verdict, his aides insist, is not set in stone - and until it is, civil rights leaders and Democrats will pepper his office with statements opposing the bureau's recommendation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOP Handed a Gift Over Census Controversy | 3/2/2001 | See Source »

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