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...During the evenings and throughout the long, dark winters, the Norse amused themselves with such challenging board games as backgammon and chess (though they didn't invent them). By day the women cooked, cleaned, sewed and ironed, using whalebone plaques as boards and running a heavy stone or glass smoother over the seams of garments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: The Amazing Vikings | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...biggest: it ran on pulses of air that jolted Clark with every beat. The patient had to be tied to an external wind machine and have large hoses piercing the chest--ideal spots for infection. Tiny motors have since permitted all the pumping to take place within the body. Smoother internal designs eliminate nooks where clots might form. Microprocessors can adjust blood flow to meet the body's needs, and lithium batteries, like those in cell phones, have slashed the time that a patient has to be tethered to electrical sources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reviving Artificial Hearts | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...returning starter on offense from the year before in which we had a lot of seniors to rely on" DeVries said. "I had to feel out my role last year in the offense--it was personally very frustrating. This year it has been a much smoother transition because I have been playing with the same people and I have avoided injury...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Lacrosse Continues to Roll, Downing Colgate 18-5 | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

While the pass/fail system in the first semester would make the transition to law school smoother, students say more attention from their professors is equally essential--a sentiment strongly expressed in the survey...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law School Plans Reforms in wake of McKinsey Survey | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...Maybe that's where Einstein got it. Just before he died, Newton remarked, "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 17th Century: Isaac Newton (1642-1727) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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