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...little my fellow students know about the Boston area. What direction is Logan Airport from here? What differentiates Allston from Brighton, Somerville from Arlington? Where would you look for Portuguese food, and how do you get to Walden Pond? The Unofficial Guide may provide some clues, and help you pinpoint an Ethiopian restaurant off the Orange Line, but wouldn't it be better to get lost...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: You Need To Get Away | 3/23/2001 | See Source »

Despite all these positive signs, however, this weekend also served to pinpoint two areas where Harvard could stand to improve--namely, defense and baserunning...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Takes Good with the Bad in Opening Weekend | 3/21/2001 | See Source »

...Scurr, a consultant vascular surgeon at London's Middlesex Hospital, who will coordinate the research. In a previous study, results of which are soon to be published in the medical journal the Lancet, Scurr conducted research he says "showed that some people develop clots after flying" but didn't pinpoint the reason. In the upcoming project, which Scurr hopes will be completed by year's end, about 40 volunteers will be used to "see if there is a relationship between the cabin environment and DVT and to find out what that relationship is." It is not only the scientific community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perils of Passage | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...only part of the story. A good chunk of the savings stems directly from the popularity of more than a dozen online insurance sites, such as InsWeb.com and Quotesmith.com which instantly serve up price quotes for term-life policies sold by hundreds of insurance companies. This lets shoppers pinpoint the best rate without having to contact an agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hardball: The E-surance Trap | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...chosen a storyteller's genre, and his books do not stand on a soapbox. His tales have got leaner as he keeps refining them down, explaining less, saying more in fewer words. While there is a moment in every book when some character cuts to the bone to pinpoint the evil of power, the preaching is subtle, the moral left to nag at the reader after the story is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ace Of Spies | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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