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...very excited because it's a tremendous issue," Palmer said. "It has been causing a great deal of damage--when I first started, we thought we had gotten rid of this problem, but now with early discharge, the problem is back...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Researchers Receive Federal Grants | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

...that tested one of the 1988 samples, hastens to say that the swatch was selected conscientiously and on the advice of textile experts. Contradicting Adler, he maintains, "We stayed away from charring and what might have been charred." Beyond that, the samples were cleaned both mechanically and chemically to rid them of contaminants. In fact, charring per se does not alter an object's carbon 14 ratio: scientists routinely use the method to date pieces of charcoal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science And The Shroud | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...might've thought you were finally rid of him when STP ditched him to go on to greatness with...Talk Show. Well, he's back, with his own album, 12 Bar Blues, the joke being that the album is nothing like 12 bar blues, ha-ha. Let the record run through your CD player once, and the first word most likely to jump into your head...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scott Weiland Offers his Version of Heroin Chic | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

Persecuted by those who don't appreciate the fashion statement made by wearing disgusting, dilapidated baseball hats, Auden C. Velasquez '01 defends his favorite one, saying, "This hat is a part of me! But all the girls in my entryway say I need to get rid of it because it's so gross and crustified. I've had it for three years though, and I can't let it go. Women just do not understand...

Author: By Susana E. Canseco, | Title: Hats Off! | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...Katadreuffe is strong, though at what cost in future psychiatric bills the movie wisely does not say. It is content to offer us only this bleak, useful thought: life's problems are not all small stuff, and we do need to sweat them. It helps us get rid of our baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Power Of Character | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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