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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...names is not a strong point of mine. I tend to lump vaguely familiar faces into broad mental categories which have titles like "people who seem as if they may be named James." This inadequacy in my memory was a persistent problem during the past school year when I taught a class of fifth graders non-violent conflict resolution skills with the organization Peace Games, Inc. Those ten-and eleven-year-olds in Dorchester were an energetic and cynical audience. They were able to answer leading questions about safety and respect with enough ease and assurance to make my questions...

Author: By Jessica F. Greenberg, | Title: POSTCARD FROM BOSTON | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

...teenager, and this seemed like a good excuse to get under the hood and learn about How Things Work. A few minutes later (after I'd dropped the socket from the wrench irretrievably into the engine compartment but before my dad taught me a bunch of new and colorful words), I realized that I am a 10-thumbed, butterfingered klutz. Now, when so much as a light bulb burns out in my house, I'm inclined to call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You've Got V-Mail! | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

Before assuming his vice presidency at Harvard, Shattuck served as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union and taught human rights law at Harvard Law School...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Former V.P. Named Czech Ambassador | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

John E. Bowers, a professor at UCSB's Collegeof Engineering, said that for the past two yearsNarayanamurti has taught a course onentrepreneurial engineering...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Physics Expert Named New Dean of DEAS | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

...page manuscript documenting the entwined relationships of the cemetery's roughly 2,500 people. Phyllis Heiss, 76, of Boca Raton, Fla., tracked her family back 15 generations across five centuries and estimates that her still incomplete family database has the names of 11,000 relatives. Heiss, who has taught genealogy classes at the Family History Center in Boca Raton for more than 10 years, has traveled through the South and to Europe, and had her own history come alive when she talked to someone who remembered a great-grandfather in Missouri, a circuit-riding Baptist minister who, she says, "wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Your Family Tree | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

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