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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Justin S. Wohler '02, also a Pforzheimer resident, said he anticipates severe crowding problems as the weather turns cold and wet...

Author: By Robert J. Saranchak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Shuttle Schedule Receives Mixed Reviews | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

...they are now a fact of life in international swimming and little was said about them last week. Of course, the aquatic center, with its temperature-controlled water and air, and the pool itself - 3.3 m deep, with special lane ropes to prevent backwash, two free lanes and a wet deck at the sides to stop waves - are state-of-the-art. "Yes, we are really going fast," said Van den Hoogenband, perhaps tired of the focus on a concrete and tile tank. "It's a nice pool... but personally I train real hard for these Olympics, and the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pool of Talent | 9/26/2000 | See Source »

...this event. And a few of her countrymen, somewhere around 150,000 of them, turned out to cheer her on over the suitable-for-framing course that started with a swim in Sydney Harbor. She looked to be in good shape there--Australian athletes perform best when wet. Plying waters ringed by shark-repelling sonar devices, Jones avoided becoming fish breakfast, then took the lead in the bike race. But she could not repel Switzerland's Brigitte McMahon in the run. The Swiss held her off in a desperate finish after they had traveled a total of nearly 32 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Splash In Sydney | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

Lice look like tiny crabs, and nits are tiny gray pearls cemented to the hair shaft near the root. The only sure way to get rid of lice and their eggs is pore over the hair, starting with a good nit comb. Wet the hair, divide it into many sections, and then methodically comb from the scalp outward. Make sure the child is sitting in a brightly lighted area, preferably in front of a good long video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nit Detector | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

Americans have always divided themselves into camps--proslavery and antislavery, say, or "Wet" and "Dry." But the computer modem revolutionizes controversy. Every man a king. Every person a moral philosopher (or blowhard) of instantaneous global reach. The written word, once a priestly prerogative, is now power in the fingers of the wired masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Every Man A Blowhard | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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