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Biotechnological innovations and gerontological research will also have a profound impact on how you watch sports. Cloning capabilities, discoveries in the genetics of longevity and advances in cryonics will enable scientists not only to extend the lives of current players but also to revivify long-deceased athletes. This will finally eliminate the need for stupefying talk-radio debates about how Honus Wagner might fare against Pedro Martinez or whether Serena Williams could have beaten Helen Wills Moody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Still Go Out To The Game? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...Dream Phone status set off a chain reaction in Hollywood, where he was soon cast in other insignificant, pretty boy roles. One of his most profound performances showed his toned butt as he strutted "away from the camera for three seconds" in a national SuperSoaker commercial on television. He recalls the filming as "a fun day spent at a gorgeous house in western Massachusetts, sitting by the pool, and eating chips." Brian also fondly reminisces about his big break as Extra #30 in the movie School Ties starring fellow actors Brendan Fraser, Chris O'Donnell, and Matt Damon. He relished...

Author: By K.e. Kitchen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: When Destiny Calls, Pick Up the Phone | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

Some individual acts of heroism are so influential, so profound, that they serve to restore faith in human nature when all else seems lost. In a time that America's leaders lost touch with the people, where the government appeared corrupt and irresponsible, one particular example of courage served to remind people across the nation that hope still remained. The decision of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson '41 to resign rather than fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34 during the Watergate investigation showed Americans that there were still some idealists, still some honest men in public service...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Remembering a Hero | 1/12/2000 | See Source »

...Unless you are particularly sensitive, short-term binge drinking does not usually produce long-term [health] consequences. Overdoses and alcohol poisoning can produce profound physical consequences," Clark says...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Do Students Really Care About Binging? | 1/7/2000 | See Source »

...with the German accent, a comic cliche in a thousand films. Instantly recognizable, like Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, Albert Einstein's shaggy-haired visage was as familiar to ordinary people as to the matrons who fluttered about him in salons from Berlin to Hollywood. Yet he was unfathomably profound--the genius among geniuses who discovered, merely by thinking about it, that the universe was not as it seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Albert Einstein (1879-1955) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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