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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Kann also says an increased number of stir-fry dishes reflects the new equipment available to chefs in the renovated kitchens...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler and Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Tweaking the Recipe | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...rivers and tributaries. In similar fashion, estuarine wetlands and mangrove forests help shield human settlements from the storm surges that accompany tropical cyclones and hurricanes. Biologists estimate that 50% of the world's mangrove forests have already been replaced by everything from shantytowns to cement plants and shrimp farms. Stir in the expectation that rising temperatures will trigger a rise in sea level, and you have a recipe for unprecedented disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Control The Weather? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...many of us ponder alien life. They're pretty sure it's out there--but they can't prove it, they don't know how big it is, and they haven't a clue if it's dangerous. All of which is creating a bit of a stir among the dismal-science lot as their famous and thought-to-be-flawless colleague, Alan Greenspan, relentlessly jacks up interest rates to wage an undeclared war on this vague creature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Going Too Fast? | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...more than 14 years, Marr worked to stir up interest--and find the financing--to get the project going. In 1990 he at last approached the Mystic Seaport for help; by 1998 a combination of state money and corporate donations allowed building to begin. "He found very interested ears when he came here," Snediker says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: The Amistad Sails Again | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

When dramatist and poet Ben Jonson published his complete works in the early days of the 17th century, he caused quite a stir in Jacobean high society. It's not that his writing was particularly scandalous. The problem, it seems, lay in the fact that he included both his plays and his poems in the same book. And why was that so surprising? He waspublishing his complete works, after all. But in Jonson's day the emphasis would be on the word works and not on the word complete. It might seem like a silly semantic quarrel today...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Play's the Thing... | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

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