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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seasick. We were on that boat, huddled together, wearing loincloths. It's tossin' and rockin' and shakin' and there's water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink, and the sun's beating down," he says. His face cracks into a grin, a slice of white in a blue-black oval...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Ashong Trades Harvard's Yard for Spielberg's Set | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Raitt has put her music to good use, in special concerts for women's organizations and human-rights groups. In 1979, Raitt helped to organize five concerts by Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE). In 1985, she sang and appeared in the video of an anti-apartheid record titled Sun City...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Activism and Song: the Raitt Way to Do It | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

This is the wrong attitude with which to leave Harvard. We spend countless hours pouring over unknowns which will remain unknowns--whether or not there is free will, when the sun will have used up all of its hydrogen, yada, yada, yada--while we spend offensively little time on the one sure thing in life: good food. An excellent soft-shell crab on a bed of arugula, after all, just...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Creme de la Creme | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...explained that if the sun's rays traveled through a magnifying glass, they could create fire. (Later that day I experimented at home and burned off the corners of the "good" carpet.) He also described how light passing through a negative onto a sensitive surface creates a positive image. I was nine and reasoned as follows: if the sun tanned my skin and if it burned through a negative to make a print, my skin might be like photographic paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REMINISCENCES: PHOTOGRAPHER RICHARD AVEDON | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...rock climbing and hikes to high valleys, including spectacular Mahoosuc Notch. There, they just might get to taste the fruit of the cloudberry bush. One plant produces just one berry, which tastes sweeter than a boysenberry. They'll also find ice caves where they can retreat from the sun--unless there's a July snowfall that day (it's happened). Canoeing on the Rangeley Lakes affords stunning views and a chance to glimpse the moose, ospreys and bald eagles that inhabit the shores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCKS AND HARD PLACES | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

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