Word: spanned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cruised to a 4-1 victory over Columbia (2-3-0, 0-1-0) at Ohiri Field in the first round of the Harvard Invitational tournament. Up 1-0 late in the first half, the Crimson scored two goals in a 1:08 span to put this contest out of reach, as it has done to every other opponent...
...entire summer I endured seeing newspaper reviews of Web sites, the letters "http" plastered all over magazines, and daytime talk shows flaunting their e-mail addresses. "The Net" opened in theaters around the country, C-SPAN hosted World Wide Web seminars, MTV televised a Michael Jackson chat session and The New York Times monitored news group activity following Jerry Garcia's death. And there I was, with my ethernet card still packed from school, feeling more than slightly impotent...
...Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS), too, has several options at its disposal, including licensing the revenue generated by many of its popular programs. After all, the Discovery Channel, Mind Extension University, the Learning Channel and the Arts & Entertainment Network, as well as C-SPAN, all survive and compete with PBS without tax subsidy. Alice Marquis reminds us that in 1973 the NEA issued a $5,000 grant to author Erica Jong to help her finish writing the novel Fear of Flying. How much could the endowment have received if it had requested a percentage of the royalties for putting...
...from the vast sums of money that can be generated. However, one thing advances in recording technology cannot do is alter the physical characteristics of these dead artists. Jimi Hendrix was considered by many to be a great left-handed guitarist--perhaps the greatest--during his all too short span on this earth. But your photograph shows him playing the guitar right-handed. JOHN PEACOCK Fenwick, Canada...
...complex topic of estrogen therapy [COVER STORY, June 26]. It is an issue that directly affects more than half the world's population. How does a woman decide what path to take in a sea of changing and conflicting information? Evidence strongly indicates a longer disease-free life-span with sustained independence in women on estrogen-replacement therapy compared with those who do not take estrogen. It seems there is an egg-size risk (breast cancer, uterine cancer) compared with a watermelon-size benefit (less heart disease, less disabling osteoporosis). One should never take a medication that has theoretical benefit...