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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feel the beauty of spring. The wonderfully fresh air. But it is difficult to inhale. And the smell just isn't fresh, full...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: An After Dessert Thing | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...Purple irises smell especially sweet in Tennessee, where state parks have already made $510,000 from sales of 25,000 plates. Despite complaints from police officers about the plates' illegibility, the department of motor vehicles is riding out the controversy with no plans for a recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...wouldn't live anywhere else. Sure, the architecture here can be painful. I didn't come to Harvard to live in a concrete box but so be it. But in a school so uncollegiate, it's nice to come home on a Saturday night and hear chanting teams and smell waves of beer stench from down the hall. Maybe that doesn't sound fun, but sometimes it can be a little depressing to look at the glow of computer screens in the wee hours of the weekend nights at the theoretically most crazy-fun time of life...

Author: By Sarah Jacoby, | Title: We Were The Housing Guinea Pigs | 3/21/1997 | See Source »

...attract and retain industry, politicians gave away valuable land, tax abatements, municipal water, road improvements and exemptions from environmental protections. The paper mill smelled like rotten eggs, and the menhaden plant reeked of rotten fish, but the men who worked there would shrug and say, "All I smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LOTT LIKE CLINTON? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

What the program lacked was intuition--the ability to set traps, hatch plots, smell danger and generally enact the violent and paranoid predator from which the human race evolved and to which all great chess players return. What's left is playing percentages. Deep Blue refused to follow a strategy it recognized as a likely loser, even one that any decent grand master could see offered the best chances for victory due to, say, a blunder by a rattled foe. The machine just didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEEPER IN THOUGHT | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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