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...kayaks. They evolved curiously split bows, sterns that were wide at the top but V-shaped at the bottom, and bone joints that made the vessels 100 times as flexible as modern boats. The Aleuts became shaped to the demands of kayaking vast distances, developing huge upper bodies from relentless paddling and bowed legs that allowed them to sit confined for hours. By the time the Russians arrived in pursuit of sea-otter pelts in 1741, the Aleuts had established a marriage of man and technology near perfect for hunting sea mammals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aleutian Islands | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...only time the Black Bears were able to mount any attack at all was at the opening of the second half with the score already 2-0 in Harvard's favor. The Black Bears' relentless pressure eventually resulted in a score to draw Maine within...

Author: By Liz Resnick and John B. Trainer, S | Title: W. Booters Bounce Maine | 9/17/1991 | See Source »

Like the Furies of Greek legend, Iran-contra independent counsel Lawrence Walsh has been slow but relentless in pursuit of justice. Last week fate caught up with a major figure in the scandal: Clair George, who ran the CIA's covert-action directorate from 1984 to '87. Walsh announced that a federal grand jury had charged George with 10 counts of lying or obstruction during a series of investigations into the Iran-contra affair. George allegedly concealed what the CIA knew about illegal aid to the Nicaraguan contras and the role of U.S. agents. The indictment increases the political heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Fingering a Master Spy | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...seminar. Plenty of first-years are accepted into one of their choices (as I was) and end up having a great experience (that was me, too). But last year, more than 400 students were turned awry from the program to which they had been drawn by relentless advertising by upperclass students, proctors and the administrators of the program itself...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: The Best Classes at Harvard... | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

...flowers at the sidewalk shrine for Gavin Cato were wilting in the relentless August sun last week, but the rage of local blacks toward Hasidic Jews in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., was undiminished. WE WANT THE JEWISH MURDERER ARRESTED NOW, read one sign there. NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE, read another. THE WHITE IS THE DEVIL, proclaimed still another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racial Unrest: An Eye for an Eye | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

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