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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard will lose the brunt of its defense. Co-captains Daphne Clark and Mary Eileen Duffy will graduate along with Whitney Smith, leaving three back spots open...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Field Hockey Takes Another Step Towards Ivy Title | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...Force Secretary around on her visit to the base. Known as BUFF, for Big Ugly Flying Fellow (or a more colorful variant), the B-52 is the largest bomber in the Air Force, 488,000 lbs. of titanium, aluminum and steel, rigged with eight Pratt & Whitney engines and a 35-ton payload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEX IN THE MILITARY: WINGS OF DESIRE | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...Whitney's cotton gin makes possible the rise of the antebellum South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORY'S MIXED FABRIC | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...officer, studied engineering in England and returned to Taipei, where he started an aerospace consulting firm. He later moved to Hong Kong, where he keeps a picture of himself with Ronald Reagan hanging on his office wall. Young served as the Asian agent for several aviation companies, including Pratt & Whitney and, more informally, British Aerospace. Over the years he has had a financial interest in preserving American trade links to China, the world's largest customer of commercial aircraft, and in maintaining a militarily strong Taiwan. In 1992 Taiwan bought 150 F-16s, all powered by Pratt & Whitney engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE G.O.P.'S OWN CHINA CONNECTION | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Share My World shows that Blige deserves a place among pop's premiere female vocalists--Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Toni Braxton. Blige's previous CDs had some charming cuts, including the bighearted Real Love and her show-stopping remake of I'm Goin' Down. Those albums, however, were tailored for hip-hop audiences; Share My World, seems designed to appeal to lovers of the Wu-Tang Clan and Lisa Stansfield alike. The first song, I Can Love You, draws its melody in part from Lil' Kim's crass but compelling song Queen Bitch, but Blige, employing nimble vocals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: MARY'S NEW WORLD | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

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