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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these images may be and probably are accurate. But like the books in which this activity will ultimately result, the act of typing masks the true content of what occurs in the creative process. The typewriter is the tool of the writer, but the printed character is not the end. It is merely an expression of the end, which is somewhat more elusive...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: To Write | 1/23/1998 | See Source »

Smith said she believes the ability to take on and understand someone else through that person's words is an extremely powerful tool...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Darst, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Anna Deveare Smith Educates, Amuses Cambridge Crowd | 1/21/1998 | See Source »

Topology is the abstract study of geometric spaces and their properties that are preserved under bending. An important algebraic tool in topology is the homotopy group, which is used to classify different types of holes in spaces and which are difficult to compute, according to Daniel K. Biss '98, a student whose topology senior thesis Bott is advising...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mathematics Professor Recounts Wartime Coming-of-Age | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Language, which used to be the source of her pleasure, is now mainly a tool, but it is impossible to know if she says what she intends or even if she hears what she says. I read that damaged minds lose the storytelling capability and leap over chasms of logical sequence. They lose words too, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alzheimer's: This Long Disease | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...very powerful tool," said John Pittard '00, a resident of Adams House. "I have used in the past when I read an article in The New York Times and then wanted to find out more about the subject...

Author: By David B. Amerikaner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HOLLIS to Allow Students Access To Lexis-Nexis | 1/7/1998 | See Source »

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