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History has doubly cursed the Balkans. it not only energizes the combatants in the most perverse way imaginable, it also paralyzes the would-be peacemakers. While the crisis deepens, well-intentioned outsiders ponder their options and fret about the risks in terms borrowed from other wars in other eras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Why Bosnia Is Not Vietnam | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

...good place to ponder this puzzle -- or to find out anything else you ever wanted to know about mosquitoes -- is an innocuous-looking brick building near the University of Florida's Gainesville campus. Its halls nourish, among other obscure yet useful twigs of the mighty oak that is the U.S. government, the Mosquito Unit, or, as it is formally known, the Mosquito and Fly Research Unit at the Medical and Veterinary Entomology Research Laboratory of the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer's Bloodsuckers | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

When they do, is a shutout conceivable? Now there's a fantasy for the Dream Team to ponder. Sleep on it, Michael. Just don't forget to set your alarm clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball Are They Kidding? | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...longer sees itself as the moral conscience of the nation bent on improving on the state of mankind," says Bruce Fein, a conservative legal scholar, approvingly. On the wall of Thomas' chambers is a Harriett Erlich drawing titled Freedom that shows three black children with outstretched arms. Thomas might ponder its message; his own liberation from the poverty of Pin Point, Ga., and his rise to the court would have been unthinkable without the body of liberal jurisprudence he now casts into doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging Thomas | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

Nearby Walden Pond is not just a philosophyreading assignment; it actually exists as a realbody of water. okay, it's freshwater, and there'sno surf, but no one can wax philosophical with thesound of crashing waves in the background. This isnot Pointbreak. Here, the idea is to muse,ponder, and reflect. Here, the only talking is inwhispers...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: How to Get Wet in Boston And Beyond | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

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