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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like the way Tamar March [dean of educational programs] talks about the educational programs as the 'aftershock' of work at the Institute," Dunn says. "She means that the people at the Radcliffe Seminars should use the research that's being done to derive an agenda or a curriculum...
While the Sox have many lessons to learn from the postseason (how to turn a double play, how to bring Nomar home from third), Major League Baseball itself also has to learn that it must reform the way the game is officiated--by instituting the use of instant replay or, at the very least, requiring the conferencing of all umpires on questionable calls. Ignorance and stubborn independence are not virtues in an umpire...
...Wring dry and lay flat on the top rack of a dishwasher. Use lemon-scent detergent and wash the shirt with "pot-scrubber" (two cycles) and "heated dry" (two cycles). The shirt should be fairly stiff, crunchy and a lighter shade of gray...
...organization has increased, the event has become more commercial over the years. Is that something you think affects the racing? HP: In recent years, for several years now, they've relied on corporate sponsorship of various kinds, but the regatta itself, I don't think I would use the term that it's commercialized at all. The sponsorship part of it is not very intrusive. It's still very much the Head of the Charles, a very amateur event, if you will. But they clearly are much better organized, and they tap into a lot of resources...
...Siberia ? and now wants to clone it. Bernard Buigues, the man who led the project to carve out a 23-ton ice block around the animal and helicopter it 150 miles to an ice cave laboratory, told reporters Wednesday that he hopes to either clone the animal or use its sperm to fertilize the egg of an Asian elephant. No action will be taken until April, Buigues said, at which point a team of scientists will begin to thaw the beast using, um, hair dryers...