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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given the killers' barbarism, it is remarkable that more trekkers were not slain. Elizabeth Garland, 29, an anthropology student at the University of Chicago, remembered to turn off her wristwatch alarm while she lay fear-stricken in her tent; the raiders never found her. Another American, Linda Adams, 53, walked a mile toward a certain death with the other captives, then feigned an asthma attack and was let go. Deanja Walther, 26, a Swiss flight attendant who speaks French, stayed with the English-speaking hostages even though the Hutus let the French-speaking tourists remain at the camp. Walther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Uganda, Vacation Dreams Turn to Nightmares | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...Lotus SmartSuite--a workable alternative at a reasonable price. It's even integrated with voice recognition software for the RSI-stricken. Just don't come crying to 14 Plympton St. when that response paper isn't quite two pages long and you want to widen the margins to an inch and a quarter...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: COMPUTER ALTERNATIVES | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...Lotus SmartSuite--a workable alternative at a reasonable price. It's even integrated with voice recognition software for the RSI-stricken. Just don't come crying to 14 Plympton St. when that response paper isn't quite two pages long and you want to widen the margins to an inch and a quarter...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: Groovy Train: Computer Alternatives | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

Last week, opening their mail boxes to find an ominous beige envelope from University Hall, several hundred seniors no doubt thought they had been Ad Boarded. Panic-stricken, they wondered, was it that fake e-mail I sent to my friend? The loaf of bread I took from the dining hall? Or--gasp!--have they found out about that paragraph on the next-to-last page of my second expos paper my first year...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Think Twice Before Giving | 3/3/1999 | See Source »

When Clinton spoke briefly in the Rose Garden after the vote, he looked, finally, grief stricken and empty, like a mourner left alone with the empty Jell-O molds and casserole dishes after the funeral. The adrenaline was gone, and the friends dispersed. His wife, welded to his side through most of the bitter fight against Starr, was pointedly absent in its Rose Garden aftermath. Her refusal to shut the door on a run for the Senate in New York could almost be taken as an announcement that she is open to a de facto separation, a psychological divorce. Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sighs and Whimpers | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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