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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Parents who tool kids around in shopping carts, consider this. A study of children treated for shopping-cart injuries finds that 40% of the time the carts--even ones with safety features, like restraining belts--tipped over, causing head injuries, lacerations and skull fractures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook, Feb. 26, 1996 | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...DuBois Society's next event will be an interdisciplinary graduate student conference called "Race as a Tool," planned for April...

Author: By Adam D. Gerson, | Title: Dudley Forum Discusses Race Issues | 2/22/1996 | See Source »

Take NET NANNY, a service that allows parents to screen certain Web sites. Parents should look into Surf-Watch, a tool that continually updates a list of "not-for-children" sites. Why aren't politicians plugging BESS, an Internet service provider designed for kids, families, and schools...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Lying Down With Dogs | 2/22/1996 | See Source »

...After a tool play off Southampton's block by Harvard's Ryan Oliver gave the Crimson a serving possession, the momentum was stopped short by a Southampton kill...

Author: By Kelly M. Gushue, | Title: Men's Spikers Fall To Southampton | 2/20/1996 | See Source »

...really a collaborate effort: "After each game, Kasparov goes through the game in reverse, explaining to the IBM team where he or the computer had gone wrong. This has surprised some people -- why would he give away secrets -- but Kasparov himself uses a computer chess program as a tool to help improve his game, and he should be able to learn from working with the IBM scientists."The Real Game"Chung-Jen Tan, who heads IBM's parallel processing research department as well as the Deep Blue team, sees chess as merely a convenient, off-the-shelf benchmark to test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronic Endgame | 2/16/1996 | See Source »

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