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The accident is plausible: it involves a hair dryer, a bathtub and an electric shock. The results are improbable: the victim, Gibson's Nick Marshall, an adman confronting a career crisis, is given a magical ability to listen in on womens' thoughts. As comic premises go these days, it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas Movie Preview | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

Serendipity intervenes: in the London summer of 1928, an open window in a hospital lab lets in a spore that settles on a staphylococcus-culture dish left unwashed. A mold grows and contaminates the staphylococcus. The lab user returns. Because he's bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, and because his lab has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventors & Inventions | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

After losing its first three games of the season--the first time that has happened since 1989-90--the Crimson came out determined to avoid a second-rate start to a season that promised to be first-rate. Freshman forward Hana Peltjo, who will be consistently first-rate once she...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Fire it Up | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

Many establishments actually confiscate fakes that have failed to work their magic. Although, according to Connealy, "it's a gray area of the law, if there's any doubt, we'll call a police officer, and that usually settles it."

Author: By Dan Rosenheck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Puritan Beantown: Hub Cracks Down on Alcohol | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

11:10 p.m. Corporal punishment, seemingly arbitrary laws and warm weather. Joe settles back in his seat: "sounds better than Cambridge."

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: The Winter Break Battle Cry | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

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