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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trip to take your medicine with the Big Apple Circus makes for a highly entertaining evening--and none too expensive: tickets range from $10-35, and the taxi is $10 round-trip from South Station. Be prepared for a spectacle that's slightly less dizzying than a three-ring extravaganza but that compensates with a mascot: a cross-dressing middle-aged man named "Grandma" whose wig has a chinstrap...

Author: By Whitney K. Bryant, | Title: A Circus Maximus for All Ages | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

MOSCOW: "It's simply indecent," fumes Russian Space Mission Control Center Chief Deputy Viktor Blagov, responding to American charges that the 11-year-old space station Mir, currently hosting American astronaut Jerry Linenger, is on its last legs. "We would ask the Americans: What kind of experts are you to think about deserting this unique space platform?" According to NASA, cautious ones. Mir has undergone a worrisome stretch of technical foul-ups lately, ranging from an overheated living module to the explosion of an oxygen-generating canister. While the Russians insist everything is under control, NASA does not share their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glass Houses | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

Digital broadcasting encodes data--in this case, the video and audio signal sent by a station--in binary form as ones and zeroes. Computers and compact discs are dependent on digital encoding instead of the older analog methods...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: techTALK | 4/8/1997 | See Source »

Although the Harvard News office granted one local television new station access to the Yard late on Saturday afternoon, the visit has been kept...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, | Title: Chelsea Clinton Visits Harvard | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...made. In the privileged town of Santa Barbara, California, where I sit, the hills are alive with the sound of mantra--from John-Roger, the Texan guru of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, down the road; from the New Age preacher Marianne Williamson, closer to downtown; and even from the radio station on which I heard last week a minister speak rabidly of the Second Coming and Foxe's Book of Martyrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUR DAYS OF JUDGMENT | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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