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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tired sameness and poor turnout return year after year. Read those position papers, once again promising cable in your dorm and longer library hours! Scan those beaming faces in The Crimson, all looking to capture your vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAME AS IT EVER WAS | 10/15/1994 | See Source »

...Summers has reason to throw up his hands again. The latest dispatch from the front lines of America's losing fight against fat -- one sure to fluster consumers as they frantically scan the nutritional labels on supermarket shelves -- comes from the Boston University Medical Center. Not only do some fats appear to be less harmful than others, say Dr. Edward Siguel and his colleague Dr. Robert Lerman, but diets deficient in "good" fats may actually be dangerous to human health. Backing up this startling assertion is a study Siguel and Lerman published in the journal Metabolism. In 47 patients with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Low-Fat Diet Risky? | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...physically incapable of moral judgment? As science begins to unravel bits of personality, accountability unravels with it. The person becomes his parts -- some working, some defective through no fault of his own. Will it become incumbent upon society to submit all killers to a brain scan? Would that not be fairer than having psychiatrists battle in court over the merits of an insanity plea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine for the Soul | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

Eventually the side effects, which are poorly understood, proved too much. An avid reader, Benny found he could not scan a book for more than five minutes without a blinding headache. The pain in his joints often kept him from playing with friends. Last year, after thinking about it all summer, he decided to cut back on his dosage. His mother and the rest of his family protested, but by October Benny had stopped taking any medicine at all. And for half a year he lived what he has called "the best months of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sick Boy Says Enough! | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

Here is the rap on Ward, however: 1) Height. Contrary to the FSU depth chart, Ward is not 6'1", but rather 5'11 and 3/4 inches. Three-quarters may seem trivial, but not to NFL scouts. General consensus says he's too shot to scan the field...

Author: By Justin R.P. Ingersoll, | Title: Ward Deserved Better | 4/28/1994 | See Source »

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