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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth digit that was outlandishly long. It was this fourth finger that provided structural support for the wings. Made of a skin-like membrane, the wings were supported by thousands of microscopic fibers that acted rather like the ribs of a folding umbrella, creating a flexible structure that was stiff enough to be aerodynamic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AGE OF PTEROSAURS | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...introduce you to a TF, a good old teacher, not some unapproachable famous person who does not even know that you are in his or her class. Sections provide you with security and intimacy in what can be an overwhelming first year of academics. If in lectures you feel stiff, formal and scared, in sections you feel relaxed, warm and fuzzy all over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Evolution of Sections | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

...Harvard team (1-5 overall, 0-0 Ivy) faced stiff competition, garnering one win in three matches played. After winning against Radford University, 3-2, in Friday's match, Harvard fell against Georgetown, 0-3, and the University of Delaware, 1-3, Saturday...

Author: By Joseph W. Lind, | Title: Women's Spikers Finish 1-2 at Georgetown Invitational | 9/24/1996 | See Source »

...would certainly be nice if we could restore monogamous marriage without stiff moral sanction. But on this point the history of the world is not encouraging. It is hard to find a society even roughly comparable to ours that has found a painless formula for keeping divorce rare. Japan has a low divorce rate--and divorce is considered so shameful that it actually harms one's career. Victorian England had a divorce rate close to zero long after divorce was legalized--and men who left their families risked being ostracized. In 1950s America, when the divorce rate was still fairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: THE FALSE POLITICS OF VALUES | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

TIPPER GORE Second Lady publishes Picture This: A Visual Diary, which humanizes her stiff husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 26, 1996 | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

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