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Hill then added a three-pointer and a baseline jumper, scoring seven of Harvard's first ten points...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Cagers Crush Cadets | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

...this place," says Lieut. Colonel Conrad Crane, a member of West Point's history department, "when I asked the cadets in my class why they were here. Some said free education or to get a job on Wall Street. I wanted to show them what being a West Pointer is all about." He shows them a graveyard full of the young, dating from the first man buried here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST POINT, NY: TOO MANY BRAVE SOULS | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

While almost all the teachers share a common passion, one Stanford staff member fairly pants at the opportunity to help students. She is Apache Rose, a four-year-old German shorthaired pointer and a licensed therapy dog belonging to physical-education teacher Monica Havelka. Apache was brought to school for the seventh-grade programs in health, science and phys ed, but she has become so popular that she now has kids of diverse backgrounds talking about her. She even has her own program to train older kids to handle therapy dogs--Apache Rose and Friends, or simply and cutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN HOW TO WELL | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...fall back on. Radano says he will incorporate music into his lectures, require listening to tapes and will even include some coverage of the current hip-hop scene. In what other class could you find a textbook with mention of Bobby McFerrin, Peabo Bryson, Boyz II Men and the Pointer Sisters...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: ELEVEN ELECTIVES | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...more willing to exclude experts." The results are dramatic, even pivotal, in cases involving breast implants. Last year Judge Robert Jones of Oregon used the findings of his own panel of scientists to exclude the plaintiffs' evidence in some 70 cases brought against implant makers. Federal Judge Sam Pointer of Alabama is evaluating pretrial evidence in 22,000 cases. To this end he has carefully assembled a four-member expert panel. Its conclusions and videotaped depositions are expected to influence not just Pointer but many other judges as well in determining what should be allowed in court. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SLEIGHTS OF SILICONE | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

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