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...actual physical danger). The segregated Old American South, simply put, has nothing on present-day Belfast, and although there is hope that things will change in the months and years to come (especially with the implementation of the Good Friday Peace Agreement), one can hardly wipe away several centuries of animosity in the space of a mere decade...

Author: By John F. Coyle, | Title: You're Safe With a Yankee Drawl | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...brought hopes of integration to the Philippines, Brazil, Africa; messages of healing to Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Germany. To Latin America he brought his intense love of the individual soul -? and his formidable anti-Communist and anti-totalitarian credentials ?- to denounce (and effectively wipe out) Liberation Theology, a Marxist-leaning Catholicism swelling up in the land of Che. Just last January it was Cuba, Il Papa face-to-face with El Jefe, quarrelling (rather adroitly) not so much with Castro?s vestigial brand of communism but with the low state of Cubans under it. "When was the last time a pope really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope, the Church and Change | 6/18/1999 | See Source »

Nothing is going on until at least 11 p.m., and everything comes to a dead stop by 1 a.m. for the rare House party, 2 a.m. for all city establishments. At that point, further pickings are slim. Guys without a club go home, and girls bat eyelashes, wipe spilled beer from tight black pants and smile pretty at the door of a final club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 REASONS WHY HARVARD SUCKS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

CONFLICT Majority Hutu extremists tried to wipe out the Tutsi minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When to Jump In: The World's Other Wars | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...wasn't exactly a display of super strength. The "grip," generated by four polymer strips designed to bend in response to electrical charges, was barely noticeable. But that force is more than enough for the individual strips to wipe dust from the windshield of a palm-size rover that NASA and the Japanese space agency isas will use to explore an asteroid in 2003. "Clearing dust may not seem like a big deal," says Yoseph Bar-Cohen, a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who created the muscles. But using old-fashioned gears and motors, he says, would make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASA Builds Muscles | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

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