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...this was the same time span in which some of the project's most crucial decisions were made, including which systems would go online in July...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Michael L. Shenkman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faculty Blast $112M Computer Systems | 3/21/2000 | See Source »

...measure, the NASDAQ accounts for every penny made in the stock market the past 12 months. In that span, the market value of all U.S. stocks increased $2.5 trillion, but NASDAQ stocks alone rose $3.1 trillion. That means non-NASDAQ stocks fell $600 billion. Foreigners are equally gaga. Last year they were net sellers of Treasury bonds for the first time, and they bought a record $107 billion of U.S. stocks. Care to guess which ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Blue Chips? | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...disease, and several preliminary reports suggested it could actually be used to treat it. But now the largest and longest study on the subject--100 women with mild to moderate Alzheimer's who took estrogen for a year--finds that the drug did nothing to improve patients' memory, attention span or language skills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Mar. 6, 2000 | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...Goldstein was hospitalized 13 times in 1997 and 1998 alone and committed more than a dozen assaults, many on hospital staff, in that two-year span. In a devastating expose in the New York Times Magazine last May, Michael Winerip laid out a bleak chronicle of desperation and neglect: In addition to hearing voices, Goldstein variously asserted that someone had removed his brain; that he was six or eight inches tall; that his penis had grown from eating contaminated food; that a man named Larry was stealing his feces and eating them with a knife and fork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Real Andrew Goldstein Take the Stand | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...Throughout each of the nine days representing a span of 18 months in the life of Barbs, she never once pauses to consider the effects of her dramatic actions. She never once considers the difficulties of being a single parent, the effect her affair with a 26 year old student, Grant Steel (Ciaran Crawford) will have on her close friendship with Grant's mother, or how to effectively communicate with her own mother. By the end of the play, one leaves wishing that at least one of these serious issues had been resolved...

Author: By Adriana Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Pursuit of Perfection and a Proper Scottish Accent | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

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