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Taylor was as formidable a force as anyone on Saturday, taking two events for Harvard. She won both the 60-meter high hurdles and the 200-meter dash, falling short of a hat-trick in the 60-meter dash...

Author: By Rob Cacace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Track Teams Host Harvard Invite | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...angered anew over voting-rights violations. Then there are the seniors, who became fair game for driving too slowly, eating too early, and because they couldn't read a ballot although they can manage a dozen bingo cards. There are the Jews, ridiculed for letting a simple butterfly ballot trick them into voting for Nazi-revisionist Pat Buchanan. And there are the random voters who had the misfortune to vote in heavily Democratic precincts using antiquated machines that have an undercount rate five times as great as those with modern equipment. I'm Irish. I know from grudges. My guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: He Ain't Heavy. He's My Brother | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...trick is for the faculty member is to figure out what in their...

Author: By Andrew J. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Spoonful of Humor Makes the Lesson Go Down | 12/7/2000 | See Source »

...trick with heart attacks is to know what to look for, and that's not always easy. Cheney experienced the classic chest pains called angina--usually described as a squeezing pain that starts in the center of the chest and can radiate to the shoulders, neck, arms or back. Angina is the body's way of telling you that your heart is being starved; the heart muscle is screaming for the oxygen-rich blood that's not getting through a blocked or constricted coronary artery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheney's Choice | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Life settled down to better than chaos only in the early 17th century, when French noodler Rene Descartes saved the day with a trick for thinking things through without screwing up: doubt what isn't self-evident, and reduce every problem to its simplest components. It is these twin tools of methodical doubt and reductionism that allow the editors of TIME to produce this special section on invention. Because what Descartes began may now be coming to its final flowering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventors & Inventions | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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