Word: nineteen
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...Nineteen ninety-nine was a big year for memorials. Humphrey Bogart, Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire and Noel Coward, among others, would have been 100, Pushkin 200, and it was International Chopin Year, marking the 150th anniversary of the composer's death. While some were celebrated reverentially, others received more bizarre treatments...
...Fact: Nineteen then-sophomore girls founded the Seneca after realizing that the Harvard social system was, according to co-president Julia M. Butler '01, "institutionalized and perpetuating...
Some parents don't mind tattoos. I know a mother and teenage daughter who went to a studio recently to get matching ankle designs. Parents who don't approve, however, are now getting some help from laws in 30 states that prohibit studios from tattooing minors without parental consent. Nineteen ban under-age piercing. The American Academy of Dermatology urges that artists be trained, regulated and licensed in precautions having to do with "sanitation, sterilization, cutaneous anatomy, infections, universal body-fluid precautions, biologic waste disposal, and wound care." Tattoos, the ADA reminds us, are permanent. Removing them? It really hurts...
...just the Feds who are on Microsoft's case. Nineteen state attorneys general have joined Justice's suit, so the software giant's lobbying strategies are expanding. Microsoft's tactics range from hiring close pals of several A.G.s to sending a key official to speak to a small town's Chamber of Commerce. State officials tell TIME that the company is also helping fund a new Republican attorneys-general group in Washington...
Along with Helms, most runners on the team ran strong races. Junior Mary Unsworth (17:57) ran an exceptional race, breaking eighteen minutes for the first time, and finishing 30th overall. Her race was a personal best on the course by about 40 seconds. Senior Kim Megdanis broke nineteen minutes for the first time, giving her a ten-second personal best...