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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is also a sentence in this year's guide's Sexuality Services section that will send a shiver down some morally sensitive spines: "If you become pregnant and wish to continue the pregnancy, you will be referred to the UHS Obstetrical Service, staffed by Brigham and Women's Faculty OB-GYN Practice physicians and nurse practitioners, for prenatal care." The sentence implies that having an abortion is as common and unproblematic as continuing a pregnancy, which for most of us it is certainly...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: UHS's Silence on Abortion | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...fourth wheel to the automobile. This is an operating system that's finally stable. My computer used to crash more than a three-wheeled car. Since installing Windows 98 two weeks ago, it's run smoothly, perkily and reliably. Best of all, it has yet to freeze, or even shiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaner Windows | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...Indian I have never before felt so proud. The Big Five nuclear countries thought they alone had the right to maintain stocks of nuclear weapons, while others could only shiver in fear. Not so. DHRUBA GHOSH Calcutta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 15, 1998 | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...That's star quality and craft in tandem, the gift of recapturing innocence even as the movie recaptures the ability of the best old Hollywood films to work as metaphor and magic. Together, Carrey and The Truman Show leave the viewer with a spectral feeling that somehow warms: the shiver of radiance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Smile! Your Life's On TV | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...sessions have long been dismissed by jazzbos as being beneath his talents. But he himself was proud of them, and listeners today, accustomed to the burr-in-your-ear juxtapositions of hip-hop and electronica, may find something bracing in the sheer sound of these records, a pleasing shiver in hearing Parker's acerbic horn cutting against the schmaltzy grain of massed violins. Then again, this may be a minority opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strings Attached | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

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