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...Americans--Vice President of this company, CEO of that firm. That's now. Flashback 15 years though, and they were probably as unexciting as her male classmates at Harvard. Sigh, the boys. Suddenly, she sits up at the rumble of a truck, realizing that she must show the garage repair person the ailing pulley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW ROCHELLE | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...experimental program the pest-control company Terminix is running to test a new pesticide called chlorfenapyr. The chemical was applied last week; in a month, Terminix will be back to see how well it has worked. If the bugs are gone, friends and family will pitch in to help repair the damage--a skill Patrick's father Virgil Beyers Sr. honed 20 years ago when Formosan termites nearly destroyed his house. With any luck, Kayla Beyers, 4, won't have to do it all over again two decades from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Termites from Hell | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

Scientists report evidence that the immune system of HIV-infected patients might take over where drug therapies leave off. In a study of 303 patients, the number of disease-fighting T cells increased during therapy in 80% of cases--suggesting that with treatment, an HIV-ravaged immune system could repair itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Jul. 13, 1998 | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

According to James K.M. Cheng, librarian of Harvard-Yenching Library, toilets in that library's bathrooms overflowed. In parts of Cambridge the sewer and storm drains are not separated--a problem Harvard and Cambridge are currently working to repair...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Torrential Rains Drench Harvard Buildings | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

...watch him simmer, snort and eventually soften. Snub-nosed, wide-eyed and high-spirited, Heche has an equally conventional transition to make, from Xanex-popping, would-be sophisticate with minimal survival skills to a woman who can bop a bad guy with a fallen tree branch and help repair the airplane for a getaway. She is also encumbered with a tiresome fiance (David Schwimmer), who takes up a lot of preaccident screen time and whose only function is to give her pause when Quinn shows his true, irresistibly cuddlesome colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Been There, Seen That | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

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