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...Tuesday, though, the bulk of the Times coverage had shifted to the business section to focus on all the money that Entremed's stockholders had made, in an article pointed to from the front page by a rather timid feature piece with a different byline. It opened by recounting the frustrations of a desperate patient. By Tuesday afternoon, Entremed's stock had faded another six points to under 45. Just 48 hours after it was first floated, a cancer cure is not much closer to reality -- unless, of course, you're a mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of The Cancer-Cure Frenzy | 5/5/1998 | See Source »

...front of the Science Center or on the steps of Widener Library, the sight of an admissions tour is unmistakable. High school seniors sporting their letter-jackets huddle in a tight bunch. Safety in numbers, this is the herd mentality at its best. Shepherding this wayward group of timid visitors is a vibrant, artificially happy member of the Crimson Key Society. Like people following the chosen one, this microcosm of adolescent fear and dreams migrates across campus to the call of its leader...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: More Than Three Lies | 3/31/1998 | See Source »

However, Chang says that a more timid person might have difficulty fitting...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Deaf Students Reject 'Culture of Deafness' | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...that Cuban survival is no longer at risk, frustration is rising as people seek something more: the end of rationing, decent apartments they do not have to share, jobs that pay adequate salaries. Discontent has not driven Cubans into the streets though: they are too timid or too fearful of an unknown alternative for that. They still do not harbor the loathing for their leaders that finally drove East Europeans into open revolt. "Cubans are always waiting, for someone from the state, from outside, from God, to change their circumstances," says Rolando Suarez, director of the Catholic charity Caritas. "People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clash Of Faiths | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...billion in the U.S. during the past five years), the most obvious investment has not been made: ensuring that every schoolchild has a personal computer. Grove himself says this would be the most effective way to reboot education in America, yet he and others in the industry have been timid in enlisting in such a crusade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW GROVE: MAN OF THE YEAR | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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