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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Autocrats seldom go quietly, and Boris Yeltsin is no exception. With his term of office scheduled to end next year, the Russian president has deliberately plunged his country into a new bout of political and economic turmoil, driven by a single objective. "Yeltsin's only concern is, and always has been, his own power," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "He's prepared to hold onto power even if that means bringing catastrophe upon his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris Gets Stirred, Russia Is Shaken | 5/13/1999 | See Source »

...more virtual environment on the Web than there remains real environment in the actual, tattered, non-virtual world itself. Or nearly. Yet doing research on the Internet is like taking a two-year-old for a walk. Pretty pebbles and deeply meaningful small sticks present themselves, but enlightenment seldom proceeds in a straight line. There is always some beguiling irrelevancy to be clicked, which is good. Often, however, the environmental pilgrim discovers to his surprise that there is not much depth of information. A surprising number of green websites are little more than 16-bit fund-raising brochures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In Cyberspace | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...seldom played...

Author: By Teri Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Go Sci-Fi with the BSO | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

Because graduate student workers are seldom full-time, they often are not covered by the policies protecting other employees. Mitchell sees "casualization" as the major problem facing Yale and other institutions currently...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: As the nation's TAs organize, Harvard's grad students buck the trend | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Because graduate student workers are seldom full-time, they often are not covered by the policies protecting other employees. Mitchell sees "casualization" as the major problem facing Yale and other institutions currently...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Union Power in Ivory Towers | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

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