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Shouts and thumps of more strenuous activities at the MAC can be heard echoing outside of the wrestling room. In the class itself, you can hear a pin drop...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: The Stressed-Out Learn to Relax Through Yoga | 3/2/1991 | See Source »

...additions, subtractions or alterations to official uniforms usually invite disciplinary action, except, apparently, in wartime. Late last month, the New York City police department overruled itself and decided that flag patches larger than a lapel pin but no bigger than 1.5 in. by 2 in. would not violate its strict standards. A Worcester, Mass., court officer fought for and won the right to wear a yellow ribbon below the breast badge on his uniform, unless a particular judge decides it might disrupt his courtroom. When a gate attendant at Miami's Opa-Locka Airport was told to remove her yellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Grand Old (Politically Correct) Flag | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

Most economists prefer to stress the uncertainty in the economy, but pin them down and their consensus is that growth should resume sometime in the second quarter. Not rapid growth -- perhaps at an annual rate of only 1% or 2%. But when it comes, it will be a welcome change from the 2.1% shrinkage in the last quarter of 1990. Precisely how soon the U.S. recession will end seems to depend most on whether the war is long or short. While the answer to that one is anybody's guess, America's investors have emphatically made a judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pointing Toward Prosperity | 2/18/1991 | See Source »

...going to hopefully play our game and pin the puck in their zone," said Tomassoni, a 1980 graduate of Rensselaer. "The more the puck is in their zone, the less effective Joe Juneau will...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Icemen Try to Topple R.P.I. | 2/15/1991 | See Source »

...these normal cells may turn tumorous and begin to divide very rapidly, expanding to the size of a pin prick. The normal cells that surround the tumor get pushed outward by the proliferating cancer cells. There are two likely outcomes from this condition: Figure 3A or Figure...

Author: By Oliver C. Chin, | Title: How a Tumor Grows: The Harvard Story | 2/14/1991 | See Source »

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