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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shape of the Science Center seems like it would be an attention-getter; most of the tourists were able to easily remember its alleged tell-tale camera shape. An even greater number believed that the shape seemed to be a stretch of the imagination. Eight-year-old Sarah Stevens of Boston said that, camera or not, it was "real ugly." Well said...

Author: By Neil R. Brown, | Title: Harvard 91 r | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...Overall, the institution is in good shape," said Elizabeth C. "Beppie" Huidekoper, Harvard's vice president for finance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Financial Report Reveals Strong Fiscal Standing | 2/12/1998 | See Source »

Once it's time to take to the ice, new doubts and distractions set in. No one skates the same program exactly the same way twice. Each performance is an evolving dynamic that takes shape only as blade hits ice. Underneath the show smiles whir constant questions: "Is there enough speed for this jump? Can I make three revolutions or just two? Since I missed the first jump, should I throw another one in?" Yet skaters must not fall for the easy temptation of deep analysis. Lipinski, a wizardly technician on the ice, says that during her long program, lasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nagano 1998: Figure Skating: Michelle Kwan: Amazing Grace | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...moving toward staying in year-round shape," Weiss said. "With the prevalence of weight lifting, a 150-pound wrestler who puts on a lot of muscle weight still sees himself as a 150-Ib wrestler and tries to reach that weight again...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Wrestling Reaches a Crossroad | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...helpful glimpse at HIV's future. "HIV is very mutable," says Gorman. "If you know how much it's changed since 1959, you can better predict the rate of mutation into the future." Giving vaccine-hunting scientists a better idea of what, if anything, can keep up with a shape-shifting enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors Find AIDS' 'Lucy' | 2/3/1998 | See Source »

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