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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David Woschitz is the sort of customer banks dream of. He's the top administrator of the Center for Sight, a 10,000-patient ophthalmology group in Anderson, Ind. His business has a perfect record for paying its debts. But until recently, he had trouble getting any respect amid successive waves of bank consolidation...
...that size but a comfortable distance. Still, the incident focused attention once and for all on the largely ignored danger that asteroids and comets pose to life on Earth. As Los Alamos senior scientist Greg Canavan put it, paraphrasing Dr. Samuel Johnson, "Nothing so clears the mind as the sight of the gallows...
...third shelf down. A view of the titles of the books on the top shelf was a mere pipe dream. Even if we were six feet tall, reaching the shelf would have been a stretch. And there wasn't a single one of those little rolly-stairs things in sight. Dragging a chair from a nearby carrel, we found that, perched precariously astride the arms of the chair, we could just make the grab...
...already written in stone in the annals of Harvard athletics, the senior has played her last game in a Crimson uniform. It would be an understatement to say that we're going to miss having the soft-spoken, modest superstar tearing up our basketball courts and every record in sight. Thank you, Allison, for giving us something else to be proud of besides Nobel laureates and Rhode Scholars...
Black women--from Tina Turner to Tracy Chapman--helped create rock 'n' roll as it is today. Indeed, Aretha Franklin was the first female inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Even so, black female rockers aren't a common sight on MTV, and they weren't a common sight at last summer's Lilith Fair. However, several new artists are hoping to change all that. Remember to Breathe is a startlingly accomplished debut, full of spirit and smarts. And British singer-guitarist Billie Myers' recently released debut, Growing, Pains (Universal), is steadily climbing the Billboard charts...