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When video dating leads to the altar, hip friends give the happy pair Fighting to Save Your Marriage, a two-part video series that depicts couples battling. Maybe it's better to fight than switch. If not, try Judge Wapner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forward Spin: Mar. 16, 1992 | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...really worried about what house I get. If I get randomized, I'll be able to switch out or I'll just learn to live with it," Victoria C. Hsiao '95 said...

Author: By Betty L. Cung, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Housing Scramble Begins | 3/13/1992 | See Source »

...Washington State, where he would have the powerful support of House Speaker Thomas Foley, and then bagging most of the 77 delegates to be chosen a week later in Missouri. The party faithful now favor Clinton, but if he seems to be limping badly by March 10, they could switch to native son Gephardt. Some of Gephardt's House colleagues who are likely to be superdelegates have told him they too endorse him in March, creating an impression of rapidly gathering momentum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Someone Else Leap In? | 2/24/1992 | See Source »

Both India and China refused to sign the original Montreal Protocol, but they were placated by the creation in 1990 of a special $240 million fund, financed by the developed countries, to help developing nations switch to CFC- free technologies. China signed the revised protocol last year, and India now expects to follow suit. The U.S. initially balked at the idea of ozone- linked foreign aid but agreed to put up 25% of the money after language was added to the agreement stipulating that American willingness to help countries pay for CFC phaseouts would not be taken as a precedent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Patch a Hole in the Sky That Could Be as Big as Alaska? | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

...that the DNA that makes up the 46 chromosomes in the human cell is not as stable as once thought. Mutations in DNA have long been known to occur, but they usually involve relatively small changes in genetic material. For example, between parent and child, there may be a switch in the sequence of nucleotide bases that are the building blocks of DNA. Sometimes an entire gene can jump to another place on a chromosome. "But you don't usually see a big increase in the absolute number of bases within a single gene," says Greg Lennon, a geneticist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Generational Saga of The Vicious Gene | 2/17/1992 | See Source »

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