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...with a large database or complicated model (the mathematical kind)—I can continue to learn about the industry, the lifestyle and Microsoft Excel. Right now, however, I have to discontinue the use of electronic devices and bring my seatback and tray-table into full upright and locked position...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: Why Are You Here? | 6/27/2003 | See Source »

...catfish. The lush grasslands that surrounded its pebble-strewn shores were filled with lions, zebras and antelopes as well as another creature, which traveled on two legs rather than four. Our distant ancestors had walked the earth for millions of years by this time, and although they stood upright, many looked more like apes than like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleontology: The 160,000-Year-Old Man | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...online collaboration among more than a dozen American playwrights written during the six months after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Return to the Upright Position explores reactions to the tragic event that shook America...

Author: By Iliana Montauk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Athena Theater Company | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

...Return to the Upright Position will be performed Saturday, May 3 at 2:30 p.m. in the Carpenter Center...

Author: By Iliana Montauk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Athena Theater Company | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

...tall, a meter wide and just deep enough to contain a grown man, the iron sarcophagus-shaped device was worn from use; rusty three-inch nails lined the inside of its doors and walls, pointing inward; they'd lost some of their sharpness. A reporter who put the structure upright and stepped inside determined that the maiden was still capable of performing her lethal function. The device was brought to TIME's attention by a group of looters who had been stripping the compound of anything of value. The iron maiden, they thought, was worthless. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uday's Maiden? | 4/20/2003 | See Source »

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