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...utmost ambition," Robert Frost claimed, "is to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of." He succeeded. Fragments of Frost's handmade poems turn up in the subsoil of the American mind like arrowheads or old farm tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Embedded in Our Subsoil | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...suggest overhauling Shakespeare's work to rid it of statements like Hamlet's "Frailty, thy name is woman" or his responding to Ophelia's "Tis brief, my lord" with "As woman's love." After all, to err is human. GEORG SCHWARZMANN Augsburg, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...would put me on the list for a phone but that the program hadn't been started yet because he was waiting for a cell-phone company to give him some second-hand ones. I was going to tell him just to wait for a leash company to get rid of some old leashes, but I really wanted the phone. I'm not even planning on using it to tattle. Whenever I see a dog owner, I'm going to talk loudly and obnoxiously about how I just bought a cell phone and this is my first call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I Hate Dogs | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...nearly 35 million people around the world now living with HIV, there may never be a cure. Once cells are infected with HIV, it's excruciatingly difficult--perhaps impossible--to rid them of the virus. The only sure way to stop the epidemic is to prevent infection in the first place, and only a vaccine can do that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting AIDS | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...physical construction is really unique.You can't remove floors or always widen anelevator, you can't get rid of a couple ofstacks, you can't widen the aisles," Lee says...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Needed Renovations Planned For Widener | 3/23/1999 | See Source »

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