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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlike Melissa, who spent her first two years of NCAA eligibility playing for the Tar Heels, Sarah will be spending a full four years in a Crimson uniform...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athlete of the Week: Sarah Johnson '03 | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...gang sees it that way. There's little time for pastimes at a company where you live most of your life in the office--20 hours a day, seven days a week on average during the late stages of Quake III's development, when almost the entire team spent nights sleeping on couches or the floor. The offices are pretty well lived-in, judging from the scattered remnants of takeout dinners and the small home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good, Clean Quake | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...speak from personal experience. As a college student in the 1980s, I spent a summer working as an intern in a hospital pharmacy. Whenever we received a prescription order, I would go to the stock shelves, find the right bottle and count out the number of pills that were called for. A registered pharmacist verified my work and swept the pills into a container with the patient's name, which was then delivered to the appropriate floor. One day I put a weaker dose of a heart medication on the counting tray than I should have. Neither the pharmacist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixed-Up Meds | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...mostly socialist critiques of the capitalist machine. Ironically, the groups are increasingly organized; the Pacific Northwest in particular, with its unionist past, grungy youth-culture present and ever Green future, is an anarchist hotbed. Add to that the hundreds of under-25ers from San Francisco to Vancouver who spent months learning nonviolent civil disobedience from groups like the Ruckus Society and the Direct Action Network. "The WTO," notes Ruckus Society coordinator Han Shan, "gave us home-field advantage by coming to Seattle." The '98 trashing of a Eugene, Ore., NikeTown was an informal dry run for last week's mayhem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Organized Anarchists Led Seattle into Chaos | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...model train designed after the full-size one McCain used to win his first Senate victory, complete with a tiny version of him with a shock of white hair at the back of the caboose. And there are three bricks from the Hanoi Hilton, the prison where McCain spent a part of his POW years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: At Home: Trophies and an Iguana | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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