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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jane Yang, an 18-year-old high school senior from Saugus, said she could tell by the thickness of the letter in her mailbox that she had made...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 2,055 Admitted to Class of 2003 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Jane Yang, an 18-year-old high school senior from Saugus, said she could tell by the thickness of the letter in her mailbox that she had made...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Admits 2,055 to Class of 2003 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

This attitude is the cause of the more troubling tendency for the University indiscriminately to tell depressed students to "take time off" and that they are not fit as students. "They see time off as the fix to everything," says a junior who has survived an attempt. "Time off" deprives depressed students both of the already tenuous support system of friends and services that they have here and the incentive to admit to personal problems...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Ordinary People | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...revolution. But it may have been too good to be true. While few question Mead's brilliance or integrity, subsequent research showed that Samoan society is no more or less uptight than any other. It seems Mead accepted as fact tribal gossip embellished by adolescent Samoan girls happy to tell the visiting scientist what she wanted to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Margaret Mead | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Turing remains a hero to proponents of artificial intelligence in part because of his blithe assumption of a rosy future: "One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, 'My little computer said such a funny thing this morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Scientist: ALAN TURING | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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