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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Additionally, problems arise because the availability statistics used in Harvard's internal affirmative action reports are aggregated broadly into three categories: humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. This has the potential to obscure more significant departmental trends. In the natural sciences, for example, the availability pool of women in biology is far larger than that of women in physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alternative Gift Misrepresented | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...market by opening up a giant mud pit outside the Science Center and charge admission for the chance to watch a representative from each of the country's major fast food chains duke it out with weapons of his or her choice. Another friend suggested opening up a seedy pool hall, while another proposed a bowling alley, or a swimming pool, or a slip and slide. From petting zoos to roller rinks, anything seemed more appealing than Loker's current incarnation...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Bring Your Lucky Dice | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...1940s described it as "the pocket where the Creator keeps all his treasures. Anything will grow there." Live and let live, in fact. In the gated community of 2,500 million-dollar homes, the cult members rented the 9,200-sq.-ft. mansion at 18421 Colina Norte, complete with pool and tennis court, from Sam Koutchesfahani, paying him $7,000 a month in cash. And although many locals knew their new neighbors were involved in some sort of religious activity, no one was concerned enough to investigate any further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MARKER WE'VE BEEN...WAITING FOR | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...they continued to preach with a passion, persuading followers to renounce their families, sex and drugs and to pool their money with promises of a voyage to salvation on a spaceship. A poster for an appearance at Canada College, in Redwood City, California, read, "If you have ever entertained the idea that there may be a real, physical level beyond the Earth's confines, you will want to attend this meeting." The auditorium was packed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMPRISONED BY HIS OWN PASSIONS: Marshall Herff Applewhite | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...Chinese housewife can discover that someone has set her garbage cans on fire, and where a black mailman who had the temerity to walk into a bar on a June afternoon in 1993 to ask for a drink of water was beaten by two white men with a pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHICAGO'S LAST HOPE | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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