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Earlier this week it was announced that the star of both An Officer and a Gentleman and Slumber Party '57, Debra Winger, will be a teaching fellow in the life-changing course, General Education 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection." The following is a formal introduction to other significant additions to the rock-'em, sock-'em instructive line...

Author: By Whitney K. Bryant, Jessica A. Nordell, and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Not Your Average TF | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...first I thought it would just go away--like Tickle Me Elmo and other such kiddy fads. But oh no, this one has gotten out of control. What the hell is Pokmon? Why is it infiltrating school cafeterias, slumber parties, Saturday morning television and (very soon) movie theatres? Our crack team will dive inside the insidious world of the Japanimation dinos (or whatever they are) and surface with a report in the near future...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In The [K]Now | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...people learned that they could expect nothing when, after 48 hrs., no organized authority had come to their aid. In many instances, rescue teams from overseas arrived on the scene first. A collapse of communications was part of the problem--Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit wasn't awakened from his slumber in Ankara until an hour after the 45-sec. tremor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: Seeking Survival and More | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

DIED. NATHANIEL KLEITMAN, 104, pioneer sleep expert at the University of Chicago and discoverer, with associates, of REM sleep in 1953; in Los Angeles. Kleitman's studies--on dream-sleep deprivation, the effect of sunlight on slumber--established sleep research as a separate, significant medical field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 30, 1999 | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...entered a series of numbers and commands, prompted by an onscreen menu, successfully blocking As the World Turns. Parents, he said, will select a secret access code to change the settings. In an ideal world, the V chip would make Mom and Dad confident that little Suzi's slumber-party guests aren't watching blue movies. In the world I live in, though, Suzi guesses that the access code is the same number you always use: your collie's birthday. She hacks into the system and orders Chainsaw Cheerleaders on pay-per-view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The V Chip Arrives | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

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