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...years scientists have puzzled over the rapid disappearance of frogs around the world. Last week a team of researchers from Oregon State University offered a possible explanation: the thinning of the ozone layer. The researchers argue that increased ultraviolet B radiation may be killing amphibian eggs before they hatch into tadpoles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week February 27 - March 5 | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...second smallest increase in the past 18 years; Greenspan himself predicts only 3% this year. Unit labor costs, a prime indicator of future price increases, are going down. Critics think Greenspan is either pursuing a wildly unrealistic goal of zero inflation or following a simplistic syllogism: as a rule, rapid rises in output eventually bring inflation; production grew at an annual rate of 5.9% at the end of 1993; therefore inflation threatens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inflation Terminator | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...organizers want to raise the money as swiftly as possible and hope that the rapid fund-raising will garner media attention...

Author: By Elisabeth A. Mayer, | Title: Fund Drive to Send Relief, Aid to Bosnia | 3/1/1994 | See Source »

...last band Christina Billotte played in was the slightly slower, more complicated Autoclave, whose other guitarist, Mary Timony, is now headed for deserved superstardom in her Boston-based band Helium. The various parts of Autoclave's sound--the instrumental overlaps, the soulfulness, the rapid riff-changing--are now split up among the bands its ex-members have formed: Helium songs are slow and cathartic Slant 6 song are speedy and compact, and Autoclave bassist Nikki Chapman's Rastro! is noisier than either other band. It's fair to say (and it's not a diss on Helium) that Christina Billotte...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, | Title: The Latest Slant on Pop Culture A Riff Off | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

Cyclin E is a protein directly involved in the regulation of cell proliferation. It is necessary in order for cells to divide, and is crucial to the rapid division of tumor cells...

Author: By Vivek Jain, | Title: Research Briefs | 2/19/1994 | See Source »

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