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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...precisely backward. In contrast to just about all other physicists, Einstein was convinced that in the conflict between quantum mechanics and general relativity, it was the former that constituted the crux of the problem. "I must seem like an ostrich who forever buries its head in the relativistic sand in order not to face the evil quanta," Einstein reflected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfinished Symphony | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Sand covers the road. We almost get blindsided by a mural-burdened van from Pastors for Peace. Bumper stickers thereon: END THE EMBARGO! ¡VAMOS A CUBA! Terrible drivers, these guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitchhiker's Cuba | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Those of us that are conscientious students work on term papers or study for finals. Like nap taking, studying (if indeed the athlete needs to do so) can be done in locations other than the hotel room but, as we all know, lap tops and sand...

Author: By Timothy M. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Favorite Martin | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

...large beach reeds he bought at Mahoney's Garden Center swayed as if the winds of the Bahamas had taken a detour through his room. Friends frequently surfed over to slime in the seaweed and bob with the kelp. They lounged on the beach chairs that covered his sand-colored tarp floor. "Swimwear was highly encouraged," Perriello says...

Author: By Nina O. Yuen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Go Make Waterfalls: Fantasy Worlds Within the Confines of Harvard's Dorms | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...course lessons get learned only one way around here, and it's not the easy way. First, you march to a dingy compound in the woods called NBC -- nuclear, biological, chemical - and you get to spend about 20 minutes flopping around in a sand pit to practice shielding your genitals from a nuclear blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ah, the Smell of Tear Gas in the Morning... | 12/7/1999 | See Source »

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