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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committee's endorsement means only that local school authorities are encouraged to use the new curricula...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Professors Criticize New Math Curricula Report | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...representativeness that it needs. Ask a representative to propose that the question of council downsizing be administered by referendum at the same time as that of the term-bill increase. Argue about whether increased funding should go towards student groups or towards large campus-wide events. But don't use baseless assertions about the success of the council's events and the council's competence without supporting your statements in some meaningful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...could well be sidetracked by the spread of the Internet, which has already begun to turn the world into a global pharmacy. Hundreds of sites are springing up on the Net, housed abroad and not easily scrutinized by regulatory agencies. For the moment, such sites are still cumbersome to use. But there is the risk that in the future, it may not matter how finely tuned Medicare policy is if, say, Mauritania can sell prescription drugs at a fraction of their cost in the U.S. Meanwhile, Americans with prescriptions in hand continue to cross the border each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Screaming For Relief | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...move all their information around? We call this the personal Web. Instead of you going to a Web page and it deciding what you're interested in, you'll be able to pick pieces of information from different websites. You'll be able to create applications and programs that use that information. That will give you power to assemble news or find the best price for a product. You'll be in control of that experience. And companies like ours will provide services online such as Microsoft Office or passport authentication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Gates: They're Trying to Change the Rules | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...International Issues Committee found that most students on financial aid were not able to go abroad during the summers, because Harvard asked them to use part of their summer earnings for tuition and expenses...

Author: By Paul K. Nitze, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weissmans World | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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