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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Coach K., I know you are the Ivy League Coach of the Year, and you probably don't need any help scouting North Carolina. However, I thought I'd offer some suggestions for a game plan on how to kick some Tar Heel tail...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Believe | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

...Tar Heels are the fourth-ranked team in the nation and the number one seed in the East. On Saturday they captured their third ACC Championship in the last four years...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TO FACE NORTH CAROLINA IN FIRST ROUND OF NCAA TOURNEY | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...short answer is no. The Crimson does not possess the talent of such national powers as the Hoosiers, Tar Heels or Terrapins. But there are a few indications that Harvard's annual jaunt southward may go smoother this year than it has in the past...

Author: By Dov J. Glickman, | Title: M. Cagers Duel Ivy Powers | 2/7/1997 | See Source »

...into senescence in the late '50s. The jinx falls especially on those Presidents who return to the White House on landslides--Richard Nixon, for example, who annihilated George McGovern in 1972, and then, less than two years later, was forced to resign, a step ahead of the Senate's tar and feathers. Lyndon Johnson's great victory in 1964 over Barry Goldwater did not make L.B.J., strictly speaking, a second-termer (his "first term" was the unexpired part of John Kennedy's), but the evil eye fell on him nonetheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THERE IS A BALM IN CHILIAD | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...some reason no longer work. This is where the problem of remyelination comes in. Studies of multiple sclerosis patients have proved useful; MS is an autoimmune disorder in which immune cells strip the spinal-cord nerves of their myelin. Decades ago, MS researchers began testing a derivative of coal tar, 4-aminopyridine (4-AP), to help MS patients gain as much use of their existing nerves as possible. The benefit of 4-AP in paralysis studies came when research with animals showed that a lack of myelin was significant in loss of muscle control. Paralyzed animals given intravenous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW HOPES, NEW DREAMS | 8/26/1996 | See Source »

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