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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daily time commitment, students deserve the personal attention that every teacher in the school can give them. It was easy for me to open up to faculty members in high school because of my mother, but at lower levels, I do not remember feeling comfortable at any time to speak with the teacher or discuss with classmates. This feeling of isolated individualism carried over into the academic realm. Rarely were we encouraged as students to ponder methods of inquiry in depth at an early stage in the learning process. Only on a cursory level was investigation and imagination fostered--there...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, | Title: An Important Investment | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

...know what I'm talking about, you slide a stone down the ice, and people skate ahead of it and use brooms and sticks to guide the stone onto a target. I think I speak for 99.9 percent of the world's population when I say: whoopee...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Nagano a No-Go | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

James spent last summer working for Mother Teresa in her Calcutta, India Clinic. In the mornings, she had the opportunity to speak to Mother Theresa...

Author: By Evelyn H. Sung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Students Named to All-USA Academic Teams | 2/17/1998 | See Source »

...Which could mean that Dolly, who was named after country star Dolly Parton for the mammary glands she was supposedly extracted from, is a living lie. If this is the case -- and tests are being conducted as we speak -- she will lose her status as world's first cloned mammal to a pair of monkeys in Oregon. Poor lamb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baaa Humbug? | 2/17/1998 | See Source »

...Chairman of the Boards Frank Sinatra's family is using the Web to speak directly to his fans about the crooner's health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 2/17/1998 | See Source »

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