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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reconcile the moral dilemma of shared toothpaste with my ingrained compulsive ways? I ask my roommates for help. "Give it up," they say. Is it that easy? They begin a training program that includes jumping on my bed daily, borrowing my clothes and using my soap. "We'll cure you in no time," they assure me confidently, scattering dust bunnies around the room. I cringe at first; such annoying girls! What horrible friends! I question the health of our relationship. But the dirty life becomes easier with each passing day, and the state of my room and the germ level...

Author: By Bonnie Tsui, | Title: BrushWorks | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

...million the federal government spends per annum in counterterror programs? After all, an oft-quoted statistic states that more Americans die from slipping in their bathtub every year than have ever been killed in terrorist acts, and you don't see the FBI issuing arrest warrants for bars of soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Weekend Review | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...million the federal government spends per annum in counterterror programs? After all, an oft-quoted statistic states that more Americans die from slipping in their bathtub every year than have ever been killed in terrorist acts, and you don't see the FBI issuing arrest warrants for bars of soap. Read TIME's Weekend Review by Chris Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

Harvard-Radcliffe Media Network (HRMN), an organization relatively few students on campus know about, produces several television shows, including a news magazine program, a sketch comedy show and a Harvard-based soap opera. These program, are screened at Loker Commons once every few weeks to a small crowd, but HRMN's programs should be broadcast. Cable wiring would give HRMN (formerly HRTV) the opportunity to broadcast their television shows to thousands of students instead of a few dozen. With this sort of exposure and airtime, Harvard's television production organization could reach out to provide opportunity for more people interested...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: I Want My HTV | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

...babies--and parenting--forever with the invention of the first mass-marketed disposable diaper; in Tucson, Ariz. Mills used his granddaughter as a guinea pig for the innovation that ushered in the throwaway culture. Hired by Procter & Gamble in 1926, he also worked on such household staples as Ivory soap and Pringles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 17, 1997 | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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