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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The object is to find and capture Carmen or one of her gang and restore the stolen treasures. In the version that is airing on PBS, player-detectives decipher a series of verbal clues, then use their knowledge of geography to score points. The top scorer gets to chase Carmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Verdi, Try Carmen | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

The chests are the result of Portia's father's dying instructions as to how his daughter must choose a husband. Each suitor must choose a chest--one is made of gold, one of silver and one of lead. To aid the suitors, each chest has inscribed on it a...

Author: By Ross I. Daniels, | Title: Demanding A Pound of Flesh | 10/31/1991 | See Source »

The firm Bahrain chose to find its bonanza has a freewheeling history, even by Texas standards. Harken director E. Stuart Watson, a former executive for oil giant Atlantic Richfield, calls the Dallas company's deals "convoluted" and difficult even for industry veterans to grasp. Says Harken founder Phil Kendrick, still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Intrigue: The Wackiest Rig in Texas | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

Harvard received a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for work that will form part of the National Human Genome Project, a 15-year, $3 billion effort to decipher the sequence of the billions of "letters" in the human genetic code. Researchers have already gone to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: While You Were Away... | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

Harvard received a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for work that will form part of the National Human Genome Project, a 15-year, $3 billion effort to decipher the sequence of the billions of "letters" in the human genetic code. Researchers have already gone to work...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: While You Were Away... | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

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