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...Northeastern was a very emotional, intense game," Stone said. "We dug ourselves a hole, but we were able to scratch and claw and come back. We also had to do that a UNH in December, and this next game should be just as exciting...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 1 W. Hockey Battles No. 2 UNH | 2/5/1999 | See Source »

Whereas traditional drug companies focus on developing chemical compounds, the biotech industry prefers to use biological ones--hormones, proteins and other substances that either already exist in the body or can be created from scratch. Examples include interferon, the clot buster tPA and the new breast-cancer drug Herceptin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs By Design | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...devaluation of the ruble, he lost--as he told the German magazine Bunte--his life savings of some $80,000. Then the Pizza Hut in Moscow that he made world famous in a TV commercial last year closed its doors. Now he's trying to make a little scratch and regain a measure of respect at home--where the vast majority of his compatriots continue to revile him for causing their present woes--with the latest volume in his post-Politburo oeuvre. Titled Thoughts on the Past and the Future, the 300-page "textbook" consists of the former General Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: If You Think Boris Has It Tough? | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...Unless the students have lots of experience in math, it's not surprising that it's not easy," he says. "It's a select group of people. We don't start from scratch...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Math 55: Rite of Passage for Dept.'s Elite Intimidates Many | 1/6/1999 | See Source »

...devaluation of the ruble, he lost--as he told the German magazine Bunte--his life savings of some $80,000. Then the Pizza Hut in Moscow that he made world famous in a TV commercial last year closed its doors. Now he's trying to make a little scratch and regain a measure of respect at home--where the vast majority of his compatriots continue to revile him for causing their present woes--with the latest volume in his post-Politburo oeuvre. Titled "Thoughts on the Past and the Future," the 300-page "textbook" consists of the former General Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev Makes Book, Sort Of | 1/3/1999 | See Source »

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