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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They may be the only construction crew in the universe not to get overtime, but astronauts Tamara Jernigan and Dr. Daniel Barry weren't complaining after a few glitches extended their space walk in and around the embryonic International Space Station by two hours. "You can't be telling me we're almost done," Barry said before ducking back inside the space shuttle Discovery at the end of the eight-hour free-float. "Wow. It feels like we just walked outside." The mission was mostly a prep for the crews to come: setting up space scaffolding, attaching cranes and hanging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASA's Construction Crew Keeps Busy | 5/30/1999 | See Source »

...imagine spending eternity at the side of a slave master, some of Hemings' descendants want to be buried in the family cemetery at Monticello. But some of the 700-member all-white Monticello Association don't want to let their black relatives in, even as corpses. They weren't even planning to invite Hemings' 33 known descendants to the reunion until Lucian Truscott IV--a writer who seems to have inherited more of Jefferson's spirit than the rest of the Monticello Association put together--threatened to show up with a gang of black cousins and disrupt the entire affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All in the Family | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...delayed hurricane-relief funds for Central America, and a good helping of plain old pork. But add-ons like subsidies for Alaska reindeer farmers, election-monitoring money for elections in East Timor, and an additional $333,000 a year for Tom DeLay's and Dick Gephardt's office expenses weren't enough to scare Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bombs Are Paid for -- With Plenty o' Pork | 5/20/1999 | See Source »

...development. This system is successful particularly for girls in middle and high school, a period when sexual tension first emerges and can become an obstacle to one's educational pursuits. This is especially true in subjects like math and science, where boys often dominate mixed-sex environments. If it weren't for my years at an all-girl's school, I doubt I would have developed so strong a preference for these fields nor such personal confidence in my abilities to work successfully in these subjects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 5/19/1999 | See Source »

...development. This system is successful particularly for girls in middle and high school, a period when sexual tension first emerges and can become an obstacle to one's educational pursuits. This is especially true in subjects like math and science, where boys often dominate mixed-sex environments. If it weren't for my years at an all-girl's school, I doubt I would have developed so strong a preference for these fields nor such personal confidence in my abilities to work successfully in these subjects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Value in Single-Sex Schools | 5/19/1999 | See Source »

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