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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cornell has hit a few rough patches as of late--its sweep over Princeton last weekend notwithstanding--and its weaknesses will only be magnified on the big sheet at Lake Placid...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With Clarkson Out, M. Hockey Will Face Cornell | 3/13/2001 | See Source »

...misleading. Take, for example, the EZ Detect home colon-cancer-screening test. The packaging promises "a simple home test for detecting the early warning signs of colorectal disease." It's anything but. When customers open the $7.99 kit, they must make their way through a lengthy instruction sheet to learn the correct procedure for dropping a sequence of tissues into the toilet bowl to test for blood in the stool. The smallest error--such as leaving the tissue in the commode for an extra 30 seconds--can cause dramatically inaccurate results. In any event, blood in the stool is only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do It Yourself? | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...projector and these two cans of 16mm film - and take it on the road. I took it to my high school. For three days straight I ran "King Kong" in segments to six different English classes. I ran it at home, out in the back yard, projected onto a sheet on the back of the house while we sat on blankets in the grass. And I ran it in the basement for my friends, including the 16-year-old with whom I was desperately in love, while we held hands in the dark, only separating so I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...Waller: This was not due to one person's mistake. The fire control technician mans what's called the "contact evaluation plot" - a vertical sheet of paper in the control room that he marks up with different colored pencils to keep track of the locations of other ships and submarines. A contact evaluation plot is often just used as an historical record so crews can keep track of where things are - it's one of maybe a dozen tracking devices they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: USS Greeneville Inquiry Reaches Further Down Chain of Command | 3/8/2001 | See Source »

...track hounds knew better. They knew that when a car isn't coming apart, the energy isn't dissipating. The sheet metal in these cars is designed to shred and fly away so that a driver isn't crushed or sliced. Earnhardt's car was still more or less intact. "Talk to us, Dale!" The plea from the pit crackled in the earphones of a driver--a champion, a legend--who was, in all probability, already dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DALE EARNHARDT: 1951-2001: The Last Lap | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

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