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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Furthermore, pro wrestling is gaining in respectability. Go to a music store and check out the plethora of wrestling-related CDs. Last week's TV Guide--a main-stream publication if there ever was one--featured different wrestlers on special collector's covers. And for the ultimate vindication, stop by the Minnesota governor's office...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: Charlie Hustle Gets A Body-Slam | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

...Class of '99, hurtling toward Commencement, the oft-cited inscription on the two sides of Dexter Gate has never seemed more relevant. But though many of us have passed beneath the gate opposite the Harvard Book Store daily for the past three years, do we know what the words really mean? The inscription is poetically vague, even cryptic, and merits a few minutes' reflection before leaving Cambridge for good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enter to Grow in Wisdom | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

...amid the more seasoned actors in Amistad, and no one could have brought to sensible life the woozy guru he played in Contact. It seemed as if McConaughey might lapse into ex-hunk obscurity, like those slightly too-good-looking fellows spotted behind a counter at a California video store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Famous for Being Famous | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...figure out what happens next, Ed, or you, might look in a video store, under Jim Carrey. The ghost of The Truman Show stalks EDtv, and it can't be shaken, as--guess what--Ed is chosen to be in the show. Ray gets jealous, Ray's girlfriend Shari (Jenna Elfman) gets the warms for Ed, instant celebrity makes Ed antsy, and the network's Mephistophelian boss (Rob Reiner) tries to shape the story line of his new star's life, almost as Ed Harris' TV mogul did for Carrey's Truman Burbank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Famous for Being Famous | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...clear halo surrounding the yellow-green growth of a mold that had accidentally contaminated the plate. Unknown to him, a spore of a rare variant called Penicillium notatum had drifted in from a mycology lab one floor below. Luck would have it that Fleming had decided not to store his culture in a warm incubator, and that London was then hit by a cold spell, giving the mold a chance to grow. Later, as the temperature rose, the Staphylococcus bacteria grew like a lawn, covering the entire plate--except for the area surrounding the moldy contaminant. Seeing that halo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bacteriologist ALEXANDER FLEMING | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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