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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While it is important to realize that the problems and inconveniences that physically and mentally disabled students face on campus are insignificant compared to those that they will face in the real world, that is not a valid reason not to protest those problems and inconveniences at Harvard where they can be so easily remedied. So many of the obstacles that students face when they come to Harvard are easily preventable as long as the administration is willing to adopt the right attitude. I dont understand why "It's a huge issue in terms of balancing historic buildings...with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...cited fiscal problems as a reason why this still plagues law students today, explaining how a mountain of debt after college and law school leaves students unable to pursue loftier goals...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala and Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Social Justice key to Law, Nader Says | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...that kind of outspokenness is one reason the powers that be in Iran wish to destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Enemy of The State? | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...catalyst insulin. With less insulin to draw on, the body is forced to burn fat reserves for energy, thus leading to a quick weight loss. Opponents argue that cause and effect have been reversed: excess insulin is caused not by too many carbs but by being too fat. The reason people lose weight on low-carb diets, they say, is simply that by cutting out carbs, these dieters are reducing their calorie intake. In response, Atkins throws out scientific terms like ketones (fat-burning by-products), while The Zone author Barry Sears talks about eicosanoids, which he claims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low-Carb Diet Craze | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...long been postulated to act as a chemical scissors that helps snip away pieces of excess protein protruding from brain cells, thereby creating the debris that gathers into the toxic plaques called amyloid. The accumulation of these fibrous clumps in the brain of Alzheimer's patients is the likeliest reason for their inexorable decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Hope on Alzheimer's | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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