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...only did Pathfinder land on a Martian plain that may have been sculpted by water, but the plucky little Sojourner rover kept bumping into rocks that are extremely similar to those found under lake beds back on Earth. "Mars was certainly once a very wet place," says TIME Science Writer Jeffrey Kluger, "before the loss of its atmosphere. And yes, life did have time to develop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mars Takes Revenge | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

According to Superintendent Harold Murphy of the Cambridge Police Department (CPD), "Cops in Shops"--a program designed to reduce underage drinking--places plain-clothes police officers in and around liquor stores to guard against illegal purchases of alcohol...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Cops in Shops' Make 7 Cambridge Arrests | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

Stock markets everywhere are falling. In Hong Kong, then in New York City, brokers are selling desperately. Deep in the desert night of Saudi Arabia, a reclusive investor, attired in a plain white robe and the red-checked headdress of a Bedouin, is buying. Brother, is he buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRINCE ALWALEED: THE PRINCE AND THE PORTFOLIO | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

There are some comments that deserve to be overlooked--they are just plain mean. Nicholas K. Davis '99, who is a Crimson editor, recalls his Expos preceptor commenting: "I don't think we're reading the same stories...Let's see if we're sharing some of the same reality." Also on an Expos paper, Sarah A. Knight '00 discovered that her grader "liked this paper in spite of itself." "That's a terrible thing to say," Knight says. "It's not constructive criticism...

Author: By Jessica Hammer, | Title: Writing on the Edge | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...money raiser for the former Governor of Tennessee. Beaulieu, the third largest carpet manufacturer in the U.S., was a target of a Justice Department price-fixing probe, but was not charged. Investigators are now looking into whether or not the company reimbursed employees for contributions made to the plain-talking, plaid-shirted candidate's 1996 presidential campaign. It was precisely a scheme of that sort that cost one of Bob Dole's moneymen a $1 million fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE WALTZ | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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