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...need it, cancel immediately. In your new service contract, read the fine print of the buyer's remorse clause. Some carriers, such as VoiceStream, give you only 72 hours to decide whether to keep their service. Others give you 15 to 30 days. These deals usually have a string attached: you pay for the minutes you used before you canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smart Ones | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

Meanwhile a string of Harvard professors found themselves charged as communists and fierce debate raged in Cambridge—as it did nationwide—on the boundary between protecting academic freedom and preventing treason...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Crimson Scare | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

Brittell and Prescott constructed a telephone hook-up by hanging a string between their facing windows, and her brother worked with Prescott on neighborhood play productions...

Author: By Nalina Sombuntham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Liberated by Chaucer | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...indication of how great the drug line has become. Almost a million prescriptions have been ordered and mailed to Roosevelts, Longfellows, and such in the States; to less well-known patrons in Siberia, Greenland, and even Tibet. Techniques of compounding potions have changed little since the customers wore string ties and bustles, but the products are somewhat different. Patent medicines are less in demand now, and if there are any home remedies in stock, they are dwarfed by a modern refrigerator that holds biological serums and penicillin. Business is strictly ethical, and though students may use the store telephone...

Author: By Stephanie E. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Time & Again | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...terminally serious Meyssan, 44, launched the book on one of France's flashiest, trashiest talk shows, and he followed up with a string of controversy-churning TV appearances that further piqued public curiosity. The print press denounced the volume in turn--one paper retitled it The Horrible Swindle--but that too helped fuel purchases. The book has broken the French record for first-month sales, previously held by Madonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The French Correction: America Behind 9/11! | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

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