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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anyone who is paying good attention will pick up on things like that," Riley says...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New, Outsourced Security Guards Criticized by Some HUPD Officers | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...Pick a Dean...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Women Left Off Harvard's Dean List | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

...Jell-O should drop Bill Cosby and pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Malkovich | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Well, that's the way it is now. If you want to get a sense of the future, take a look at Achieva College Prep Centers, an education company. Give Achieva your child beginning in freshman year of high school, and the staff will help your teen pick classes, clubs, community-service projects and summer jobs, all with an eye toward creating a snazzy profile to present to college admissions directors. Achieva will tutor when your youngster falls behind and do the test prep to pull your kid ahead. The twentysomething counselors, who resemble the well-scrubbed models from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guidance For Sale | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...divine or a fallen angel. As a good angel, you wave a sword of the spirit at demons who seem to be wearing little green bikinis. As a fallen angel, you get to stick your claws into those insufferably righteous angels. Guess which one kids are going to pick. So why give the option to be evil? The designers use the free-will argument and note that choosing the fallen angel leads to murder and self-destruction. In the post-Columbine era, that may bear too close a resemblance to real-life nihilism. Still, Christian parents shouldn't fret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christian Computer Games | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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