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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...local pilot, had canceled a planned flight from Essex because of a troubling haze that had already reduced visibility. Bailey decided to ground himself when he looked off in the distance for a familiar mountain ridge but couldn't see it. "That is a test that most pilots use at the airport," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Day | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

Celebrity is hardly a prerequisite. Kennedy's life would have been just as valuable had he been, to use another poet's phrase, a "mute, inglorious Milton." A beloved colleague at TIME died recently who was unknown to most of the world, save the friends she cherished, yet gestures of friendship were her public service. The measure of a life is often taken in the smallest units. On television, a parking attendant in the garage that Kennedy used mentioned that Kennedy came over personally to wish the man a merry Christmas every year. A middle-age African-American woman with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Measure of a Life | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...time at Harvard I started messing around with muffins," he says. "I made these things called power muffins, I would use the students as my subjects...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Harvard Chef Serves Up Low-Fat, No-Fat Gourmet | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...development will be issued its coveted certificate of occupancy in two weeks, which means that the new building will be officially ready for use...

Author: By Robert B. Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HBS Grads Develop Harvard Square Property | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...West Bank neighborhood where tap water is carefully boiled in order to disinfect and toilets are turned on and off between usage. By contrast, in the magazine office where I work, the water cooler of fresh mineral water is restocked daily and, although our tap water is drinkable, we use it only to wash off our coffee mugs...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: Peace, War and Water in the Middle East | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

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